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// Chapter 51 - Hurricane Fluttershy! 
// Story: My Little Pony: Ren's Adventures In Equestria 
// by MaxTV1234 
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My Little Pony Theme Song

"...Oh? What's wrong? Why are you all giving me those looks?" She asked curiously, tilting her head in confusion while we all jaw-dropped upon meeting another human in the room, and she's not even afraid, worried, or anything at all! 

"P-please excuse ma'am..." Jamie apologized, recovering from the shock. "W-we're...umm...well..."

"We're just shocked to see another human here too!" I exclaimed in shock and surprise.

"Yeah, so soon as well!" Kaede agreed. "Where-"

"Did I wake up from a mysterious pod in a mysterious white room? Was that you were gonna say?" W-what the?! D-did she just guessed what Kay was gonna say?

"W-what?" Kaede asked, startled a bit. "Yeah, that's what I was gonna say!"

"The hell?!" Jack exclaimed. "How-"

"Did I know that? Was that you were gonna say?" She asked, causing Jack to widened his eyes in shock. "...Sorry if I was being rude for interrupting you."

"It's quite alright." Mason assured with a somewhat nervous grin. "But...sorry if I am being rude, but-"

"Who am I? Is that you were gonna say?" She asked curiously, which made Mason blinked in shock before letting out a nod.

"Wow!" Carrie said in amazement. "It's like you can read our minds!"

"It's nothing like that......." She stated before glancing away from us and the conversation went silent, neither of us making a sound or saying anything to her, neither did she.

".....Well anyway." Mason cleared his throat before giving her a serious look and said "Who are you if we might ask?"

"Nicole Bonnie, it's nice to meet you...I think." Well that's kinda a weird way to introduce yourself.  "I don't think I ever gotten your names."

"O-oh...J-Jamie Watson..." 

"Names Jack Yamaki, nice to frigging meetcha.

"My name is Kaede Ross."

"I'm Ren. Ren Loodan and yeah I get if my last name sounds kinda weird..."

"I'm Carrie and this is my big brother, Mason!"

Rantaro glanced away as he went silent with an uninterested look. I turned over to him and asked "Umm...aren't you gonna introduce yourself Rantaro?"

"Don't have to. She already knows who I am." Rantaro replied with a soft smile and shrugged. 

"He's right..." Nicole agreed, looking over her iPad. "When I woke up, I encountered him in the white room and he and I investigated this place, including the new rooms."

"Huh?" Kaede asked in confusion. "You two explored the new rooms already? Then-"

"Where did I get this iPad when all of our belongings were taken away? Is that you were gonna say?" Nicole guessed, much to Kaede's surprise as she smiled at her and said "Well yeah! How did you do that?"

"I just knew that by reading your mouth movements..." Huh? Mouth movements?"

"You know what about to say judging by the movement of our mouths and how we feel?" Mason questioned, with a small nod from the girl. 

"Yes, I'm a Psychologist..." She explained, looking over at her violet-colored iPad. 

"Ah!" Jamie gasped with widened eyes and I could've sworn that I saw sparkles from his eyes. "I know who you are! You're Nicole Bonnie, a psychologist who worked on many different documents on the different subjects of psychology. She was fully known for her research on analytical psychology and can read whatever a person's personality truly is!"

"No way! So she can read our emotions?!" Kaede gasped. Carrie felt excited by that as she made a smile on her face and said "Wow! She must be that famous, is she?"

"So it would seem." Mason nodded.

"Tell me about it." I agreed before turning to Nicole and said "It's kinda awesome that you-"

"Read people's emotions? Was that right?" I became startled upon hearing her say what I was about. 

"Y-yeah, that's quite an amazing ability you have there." I grinned happily and another round of silence came from her as she glanced away from me and looked over at her iPad, not bothering to answer me. "Uhh...are you okay?"

"...Sorry. I'm not the type to...be in small talks like this." She apologized, much to my confusion as I rubbed my cheek in confusion. So she's not good at conversations? I don't think I've heard of someone not good with small talks.

"Course you wouldn't." Rantaro chuckled. "Besides, you must have good observational skills to easily identify someone. I gotta say...that's not a little boring."

Nicole furrowed her brows a bit and said "No, you're lying about it. You're quite impressed by them."

Rantaro let out a scoff and looked away from her while the rest of us felt surprised upon hearing that.

"No frigging way!" Jack exclaimed in shock. "Did you just...saw through his lies?"

"Yes." She answered bluntly. 

"Intriguing..." Jamie muttered loudly. "Her observation skills must be so skilled that she can easily see through lies, even good ones from Rantaro."

"So it would seem." Mason nodded, crossing his arms before turning to Nicole and asked "Though, I guess while we're here, we can explore the new rooms you talked about, right?"

"Correct." She nodded before walking away and past us, presumable going over to the elevator because it showed us the new floors of this ship. 

"Well...she's interesting." Kaede chuckled nervously with a small sweat-drop.

"I think she's a nice person." Carrie giggled.

"Yeah well she's too quiet as a cat." Jack rolled his eyes while Rantaro followed after her and said "Say what you want. I see her quite interesting...in a way of course."

I raised a brow at Rantaro's comment before walking over to Kodi and the other pets, who were relaxed and comfortable on the couch including those scratches Nicole gave to them. 

"Hey boy, how you feeling?" I asked, scratching his belly as he looked at me with an excited look before licking my face repeatedly and replied "It was quite good! I kept the place all safe from any intruder!"

"Then what about Nicole?" Jamie questioned.

"Oh her? She's nice. Apparently, I saw her wandering out of Ren's room with a confused look as I spoke with her, and for the first time, she wasn't surprised by me talking at all." We all looked at Kodi in surprise upon hearing about Nicole not even afraid of hearing him talking.

"Seriously?" Kaede asked incredulous. 

"I know that her expression turned boring, but she wasn't showed the bit of surprise?" Mason questioned, which Kodi nodded. Mason thought for a while as he petted both of his pet squirrels' heads before turning to Jamie and asked "Jamie...do you know anything more about her?"

"N-no...I only learned about her research about the different subjects of psychology and how her reputation grew popular. Though I've heard and rarely seen her on the news when discussing about that research." Jamie explained, glancing away nervously. "I-I'm so sorry if I wasn't able to provide any more information..."

"Don't feel bad Jamie." Kaede assured. "I'm sure that she'll tell us more about herself."

"Kay's right, I mean I learned about most of you guys and we still became friends." I added with a smile on his face. "So let's go follow her and talk with her while we explored the new areas."

"That's a great idea Kay!" I nodded in agreement before heading over to the elevator, seeing Rantaro, his friend Gizmo, and Nicole standing over in front of the elevator as it opened with the rest of us, along with our pet animals walked inside of the elevator and saw two more buttons were activated. "Alright, let's go!"

I pressed one of them as the elevator doors closed, pulling us up as we awaited for the arrival the new rooms that appeared in the place. I stood there in the center of the elevator, Kaede and Kodiak standing next to me on each side, Carrie held her brother's arm, who kept his serious look on his face, Jack leaned against the elevator's walls with a chilled and relax look on his face while Jamie felt nervous as he held against the notebook real hard in his arms, Rantaro was busy on his iPhone 7 and Nicole was keeping quiet while she looked at her iPad, not feeling nervous or excited at all to explore the new areas. 

Sooner after five minutes of awkwardness, the elevator took a stop as the doors opened, revealing a giant mall-like area with many different stores, food courts, and a movie theater! Holy cow! I think we really dd hit the jackpot here! This ship really is paradise!

"No way! Look at this place!" Kaede exclaimed in awe. "It has Target, Walmart, food courts, and a fashion store!" Kaede exclaimed in amazement!

"Ooh! That's so cool!" Carrie cheered with an excited grin on her face as the two, along with Mason, took a good lock around the stores. 

"This looks similar to one of the malls back in our world." Jamie explained, taking notes and sketches in his journal. "The designer must've somehow copied the blueprints of the Galleria Crystal Mall...fascinating, weird but fascinating..."

"Ha ha! I never thought we needed another good awesome place to hang till today...or tonight." Jack rubbed his head bashfully while I walked around a bit with an excited grin on my face before looking up at the ceiling, seeing a glass ceiling that showed us the beautiful sunset fallen down in the skies.

"Whoa, what is this place Ren?" Kodi asked in confusion and excitement.

"It's called a mall, a place where humans buy things, get refunds on things they never had, hang out, have fun, and...whatever you want!" I explained with a big grin on my face. "This is just so awesome that we get to go to the mall everyday! I bet they got a GameStop so that I can buy a game that I didn't get yet since arriving to this world."

"We've already explored this place and I gotta say..." Rantaro gave off a smirk on his face. "This mall really does have valuable things."

"Yes, yes it does..." Nicole agreed, glancing away from him before doing something on her iPad. You know, speaking about it...

"Hey Nicole, I know we just met but..." 

"Why do I have a device when most of ours were taken away from us?" Nicole guessed, startling me a bit as she continued "If you're thinking about suspecting me like Mr. Wilde here, then no. I got here from the Walmart store."

"What's a 'Walmart'?" Kodi asked curiously.

"It's a store that you buy food, candy, magazines, frozen food, video games, clothing and such." I explained before turning back to Nicole and said "But shouldn't you pay for it? It would seem pretty rude to just take things without permission."

"There's no one around here, so I thought it wouldn't matter." Nicole replied, turning her head away a bit from me. 

"See, even she gets it." Rantaro smirked. "We own this place now so we can do whatever we want. No one can tell us what to do anymore..."

Well...when you two put it like that, I can't argue with logic like that.

"It would seem that this mall district has a second floor up." Mason stated, seeing the next floor above us where the food court and some other stores were. 

"Alright, let's go investigate by taking that escalator." I said, pointing over to a nearby escalator as we all went up and just ten seconds of boredom and such, we arrived to the next floor. 

"Whoa, that was quite fun." Kodi smiled, looking back at the escalator.  "So that's what an escalator is. It's kinda a weird machine."

"Trust me, I think stuff people built were weird but at the same time, useful." I replied with a smile, earning confused looks from the others.

"Like whaaat?" Jack questioned. I rubbed my cheek in embarrassment and said "I-It's nothing."

"Ren?" Mason asked, raising a brow.

"I swear you guys, I was kidding." I chuckled nervously before walking over and gasped excitedly upon seeing what I thought it couldn't be! "No way! GameStop! I'm so glad that we got it! Now it really feels like paradise!"

"Of frigging course you get excited about that." Jack scoffed as we looked around the GameStop store and saw millions of different PSP, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, and Xbox One games. 

"Look at all these games! They even got new games that I never bought here!" I exclaimed, looking over the shelves with an excited look on my face.

"I-it sure is...amazing." Jamie glanced around the place. "Although I've never been a gaming store before."

"Seriously?" I asked in surprise, which he nodded until I patted his shoulder and made a serious look and said "Then I'm gonna have to teach you on being a gamer like me."

"Please don't." Kaede said with a nervous smile before something caught her eye. "Hey you guys, what's that?"

We looked over to see what was on the shelf, which caused me to gasped in shock. I-it couldn't be...! It's...

"Kingdom Hearts III!" I exclaimed in excitement before immediately running over to a stand and picked out the game, holding into the air with an excited look on my face. "Oh my god! I've been waiting for years for this game to come out, and the other fans I know from Youtube were excited for the game, including that teaser trailer I've seen a couple of years ago."

"Kingdom Hearts III?" Carrie asked curiously. "What's that?"

I turned back with a gasp and asked "You guys seriously never heard of that game before?!"

"Should we?" Mason questioned with a raised brow.

"I had. It's one of those excited games that fans been dying to get." Rantaro explained. "I know a guy who knows how to bootleg some movies and videogames."

"You're kidding, right?" Jack questioned, sneering at him.

"No, he's telling the truth..." Nicole stated, causing Rantaro to feel a bit irritated by that. 

"You just like calling out whenever I'm telling the truth or not? I tell the truth most of the time." Rantaro smirked at her, but she glanced away and stated "No you don't...you like lying to conceal yourself and your past in a veil of lies."

We all blinked in surprise upon hearing that as Kaede stated "Well...she's not wrong there."

"His whole past is shrouded with mystery." Mason stated. 

"Well even so, I still think of him as a friend." I chuckled with a smile, earning an incredulous look from a certain biker.

"Really?" What? I'm just saying. But besides the point, I can't believe that this place has a gaming store that were selling Kingdom Hearts III!.....Wait....something doesn't feel right... 

"I-Is there something wrong Ren?" Jamie asked, noticing my confused look. 

"Well...it's just that....why would the game be released right now?" I asked, confusing some of them.

"What do you mean Ren?" Kaede asked, not following what I said. 

"Well, the game was meant to be released in January 2019, just next year so why is it already released so soon?" Everyone looked at each other in confusion, realizing that I might have a point there since I am a huge videogame fan.

"To be fair, I think he might have a point..." Jamie muttered loudly, rubbing his chin in thought. "I mean, Ren is known for being a great gamer but even though he's average and such, he is quite fascinated with many games, movies, TV shows, and such."

"See, even Jamie agrees with me." I pointed out with a smile before sweat-dropping a little. "And come on dude, I'm not that average."

"It's true..." Nicole agreed, looking over her iPad. "According to here that the game was meant to be released worldwide next year on the first month of 2019, but it's here on display."

"That is true." Mason nodded. "That does seem strange..."

"Oh! Maybe it was released earlier?" Carrie suggested, but I shook my head and replied "No, I don't think so Carrie. Games won't be released on display until the released dates or if someone has the internet like me, they buy the games online to have the first experiences of it and see how awesome it is."

"Hmm, for a kid you ain't half bad." Rantaro smirked, walking over to the register and looking over the cashier.

"And how do you know that Ren?" Kaede asked curiously.

"Yeah, you seemed pretty sure of yourself." Kodi added, tilting his head in confusion.

"Well I watched Youtubers always playing games like Yo Kai Watch 2, Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion and Super Smash Bros. Wii U always playing the games just a few weeks before the release dates, meaning that they pre-order the games to gain first experience. I sorta envy them because they get to play the games for the first time." I chuckled, rubbing my head bashfully.

"Of course you would." Mason smiled. "You're always the type to play video games late at night."

"You got me there..." That gotten the others to either smile or chuckled, but the only one who wasn't doing that was Nicole herself as she just looked at me for a while before walking off. "Huh? Nicole, where are you going?"

However, she didn't replied and just wandered off, causing the rest of us to look at each other and followed after her while I put the game back on the shelf. While I am quite excited yet confused upon seeing the game, I can't just take it. It would be wrong to just take it without paying for it.

Soon, we noticed her walking by with her iPad in front of her until Rantaro walked over in front of her, causing Nicole to stop in her tracks.

"Wow, for a psychologist, you sure know how to be plain rude." Rantaro joked, but she remained silent for a while until she said "Sorry, I told you that I'm not the type to divulge into stuff like that."

"Really?" Rantaro snickered. "I didn't noticed."

She furrowed her brows at him and said "Please, no need for the sarcasm."

"Whatever." Rantaro shrugged while the rest of us looked at her with confusion. 

"Well still, it is quite rude to just ignored us and walk off like that." Mason stated.

"Right...so sorry about that." Nicole apologized. "But you guys can go over and investigate this place as much as you want."

With that, she began walking away and headed over somewhere in this mall district.

"Well...I better make sure she doesn't try anything stupid." Rantaro stated as he began following her.

"Big brother, why does Nicole act like that?" Carrie asked curiously.

"I...have no clue." Mason shrugged. "Though I'll admit that for a psychologist, she isn't the type to have a conversation with."

"Y-yeah..." Jamie nodded. "While I read about her work, I never heard about how she works nor a-about her personality..."

"Well they are many different people who don't fit well with their talents." Kaede chuckled nervously.

"Whatever, she just loves being quiet. It makes me feel suspicious of her." Jack said, sneering at the girl as she was seen in the food court with Rantaro watching over her as he was seen leaning against a pillar. "But not on the same level of suspicion as Rantaro..."

"Come on you guys, we're all friends here." I said with a soft smile. "We all need to get along here."

"Tch...whatever." Jack said before letting out a small burp, which gotten a smile on his face. "But overall, I'm getting hungry. Hopefully that food court has some automatic food makers like that One Round arcade room from the last floor."

With that, he began taking his leave while the rest of us stayed behind. Man, Jack sure really love eating his food.

"Lucky..." Kodi groaned with a pout, causing me to scratch him underneath. 

"Well I guess maybe a quick bite. We can eat over by the food court for dinner." I offered, which the others seemed to agreed.

"Yay!" Kodi and Carrie cheered.

"Meow!" Rosy cheered alongside them while Kaede scratched underneath her chin while she rested in her arms. 

"Sounds to me Rosy agrees with that." Kaede giggled.

"Well...I see why not we should eat. Need a break from cooking for a while." Mason smiled.

"Y-yeah...I wouldn't mind trying a food court out..." Jamie meekly smiled, which brought out a small smile on my face. Well something tells me that we're gonna enjoy our time together what with the new floors here in this home-ship. Soon after, we decided to take a little break and ate some food over by the many food courts like Subway, McDonald's, Burger King, Papa Johns, Dominoes, and Golden Coral. Turns out, Jack was right for once because the food was being made automatically and we enjoyed eating our time. 

Though, it's been a while since I had a hamburger with a side of fries and purple Fanta, which I mean that I'm having one right now, well except for the hamburger because I started getting used to eating the pony's diet here in Equestria, so I'm having a veggie burger. Soon after, we were enjoying eating our food what with Rantaro ordering a cheeseburger, Jack eating many types of food he got from the buffet, Jamie simply eating a normal Italian Bread sandwich with teriyaki, lettuce, and tomatoes by the side. Carrie and Mason were eating some pizza, along with Kaede and Rosy. Kodi was busy eating some plain cheese pizza, much to his joy.

"You know, this pizza taste so good." Kodi barked happily before I wiped away the smudges of his face. "Though I've taste pizza before and they kinda taste somewhat similar."

"Well Equestria and Earth do seem to feel somewhat similar to each other." I replied with a shrug before finishing off the last bit of my chicken sandwich. Well we haven't eaten any meat in a long while, but even when the others aren't here, we still have to keep our promises to them...well except Jack and maybe Rantaro because Jack likes to blurt things out of his mouth and has a big appetite and Rantaro...well he's the type who seems to break promises while also keeping promises under prices. 

Anyway, I saw Nicole eating a nice Caesar salad on the table while viewing her iPad. Jeez, I've played many games on the screen for a long while, but this is ridiculous. 

"Is that you gonna have again? Seems like a boring way to eat dinner." Rantaro shrugged, drinking from the cup. 

"I'm a vegetarian, so there's nothing much..." Nicole stated, glancing away from him before going silent.

"Oh, so you're a vegetarian?" Carrie asked curiously. 

"Well it would seem that's a relief." Mason smirked a bit.

"What do you mean?" Nicole questioned.

"You still haven't realize since meeting the talking dog?" Rantaro questioned, pointing over to Kodiak, who was still eating some of his pizza. Nicole shrugged while he sighed irritably. "God, and you call yourself a psychologist."

"Hey! Be nice Rantaro!" Kaede scolded, which Rantaro ignored as he continued to drink his Coco-Cola.

"Well..." I looked over at Nicole with a smile. "You see-"

"We're in another world filled with magical talking ponies and we seemed to be trapped in this world till we find another way back into our own? Am I right?"

....She literally took the words right out of my mouth.

"W-what the hell?!" Jack exclaimed with widened eyes. "D-did you just-"

"Guess what he was gonna say? Correct?" Oh my god! She literally did it again!

"G-Goddammit! Stop it!" Jack demanded.

"N-no way!" Jamie exclaimed in shock. "I've read about your work but to think that she was able to figure out what Ren was about to say! Is her psychology really that advanced to know what others are saying?!"

Mason gave Jamie a blank look and replied "And you aren't even questioning on how she took it all with a calm look on her face?"

"Yeah." Carrie nodded before smiling over at Nicole and asked "Are you sure that you aren't psychic? I mean, that's what a psychologist is, right?"

"I think..." Nicole shrugged, finishing up her salad before getting up and letting out a yawn. "Ahhh...I think I should go over to my room and take a nap."

"Seriously?" Jack asked incredulously, but she didn't replied back as she got up, took her tray and put it into the trashcan.

"And of course she's just walks off." Rantaro rolled his eyes before following after her.

"Is it just me or does Rantaro seems to take an interest in her?" Kaede thought aloud, which the rest of us nodded. 

"So it would seem." Mason crossed his arms with a solemn look on his face.

"So wait, is she really psychic?" Kodi asked curiously. "Is that what a psychologist does?"

"Not entirely..." Jamie stated, glancing down. "Though I'm starting to think of that possibility..."

"Me too! She must be psychic!" Carrie grinned happily. "Wait till Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle to hear about this!"

"And so will the others." Kaede agreed, blinking in surprise. "So what now? Should we follow them?"

I looked over at my empty tray and began thinking about following after them, so...maybe I should go after them while the others keep investigating here in this mall district.

"You guys...why not investigate this mall? I'll go check up on them." I offered, getting up from my seat as I walked over to the trash and dumped the empty tray on it. 

"Are you sure Ren? Do you not need us to come?" Mason asked. I shook my head with a smile and said "Don't worry you guys, I'm sure that the next area is our new friend's room."

"Whatever, you go. I rather stay here and eat more food." Jack continued to eat more food on his plate, which made some of us feel disgusted by it.

"Right...see ya and good luck on more investigating this mall." I said before heading out with Kodiak following after me. 

"Hey, wait for me Ren!" Kodi called as he ran next to me with an excited look on his face. "I mean, I'll never leave your side."

"Heh heh...thanks boy." I smiled before scratching him underneath the chin before turning back at the others and said "Well I'll see you guys later!"

"See ya Ren!" Kaede called as we continued to look after Rantaro and Nicole before finding them back at the ship's elevator. They soon noticed us as Nicole glanced away, still having that bored look on her face.

"Hey you guys!" I waved happily, getting a short wave from Nicole and an annoyed glance from Rantaro as he asked "Oh great, now what do ya want kid? Can't you see that we're trying to get some sleep?"

"S-sorry about that..." I apologized before asking "But we were just curious if you guys took us to the other new room that opened up."

"You mean her room?" Rantaro glanced over at Nicole, who was busy looking at me which send some awkwardness and chills on my spine. "Meh...I've already investigated that place..." Rantaro gave me a small smirk on his face and said "But...I think you might find some useful info that we've discovered there."

"Useful...info?" I asked curiously.

"What kind of useful info?" Kodi tilted his head with a raised brow.

"I could tell you..." Rantaro made a small smirk on his face. "For 1,000,000 bits."

"But I don't even have that money!" I exclaimed.

"He's serious though I'll never understand his prices..." Nicole stated, furrowing her brows towards Rantaro. "Tell me, why do you do that when you know most people would pay the over-expensive prices you make up?"

"It's just how I roll." Rantaro snickered, which made Nicole looked at him for a while before glancing away and took her leave into the elevator, causing him to mockingly pout. "Now that's just mean."

"You know she can practically know that you don't mean that, right?" Kodi pointed out, which made Rantaro rolled his eyes.

"Course I do dog, it's called 'sarcasm'." Rantaro answered before walking over to the elevator as Nicole pressed onto the button and waited for the elevator doors to open. "And besides, if you two want, go over to Nicole's room. I rather to go to sleep. Besides, it's getting late so why not you go over to the sleep? Especially about the whole dragon business."

"Huh? You seriously just asked that now?" I asked in confusion.

"Yep." I gave him a deadpanned look before asking "Well...don't you wanna know how the rest of us got turned back to normal?"

"Nah...it'll be a waste of time." Rantaro answered. 

"Come on Ran, well can you guys take me to Nicole's new room to investigate if there's any possible clues there?" I asked, which made Nicole glanced away and Rantaro crossing his arms and Gizmo coming out of his hat and eating some pretzels that he might've gotten from the food court. 

"...Ugh, you'll just keeping bothering us. That's the kind of guy you are." Rantaro snorted. "Fine, I see why not to take you there, right Nikki?" 

"'Nikki'?" Nicole questioned.

"It's a nickname, get with the program." Nicole looked at him while blinking before shrugging and pressing a random button, activating the elevator as we descended towards the next floor to investigate. Five minutes later, we arrived to the next room which showed a room that seemed to look similar to a college dorm room because it had a personal bathroom, a Queen Platform Bed With Floating Nightstands,  a foldable closet doors, a board floorboards, a rainbow colored carpet, a big Flat Screen HDTV attached to the wall, and the walls were dark blue, and had a window just over her bed. Not only that, there was a stack of books over by a big shelf and a desk next to it.

"Oh, so this is your room Nicole?" I asked curiously.

"Yes, it's no big deal...." Nicole replied, glancing away before going over her iPad before walking over to the bookshelf and looked over it. Well it looks like a normal room just like the other rooms we've seen. Soon, I noticed Kodi started sniffing around the place until he paused and let out a big sneeze.

"ACHOO!" Kodi exclaimed, rubbing his aching nose with his paw. "Ooh boy, this room was quite dusty."

"You can say that again." Rantaro said. "That was my first reaction when I first came here."

"Indeed...although I don't why but it would seemed to be quite strange...a room filled with dust..." Nicole agreed, furrowing her brows as she showed her serious look. It does seem weird, so why is this room so filled with dust? It's like this room hasn't been used for who knows how long.

"Yeah..." I agreed as Kodi carefully sniffed around in hopes of not sneezing from the dust again. Soon after, he let out a bark as I turned around as he pointed over to the desk, seeing a letter on the desk. "Is this...a letter?"

"Yeah, you can read it for your own. I already had." Rantaro shrugged, turning away from me. "Trust me, it'll help ya in your own investigation."

"And while I am confused by all this, I'll ask you and the others tomorrow morning more about the situation we are in." Nicole added, glancing towards me while I shrugged and looked over at the letter and decided to read over it.

"What does it say, Ren?" Kodi asked, feeling anticipated about it.

"Well..." Soon, I began reading it aloud to learned about the contents of this letter.

"From the Executives Office of the Co___y Fou____ion....
Through__t the years, We have be__ committ__ to w___ching and h___ing the world in order to h_lp the p__ple in search of their lost fut___s. But we re____t to inform that the w____d is fac__g an epi___ic crisis. Ever sin__ the biggest inc______ that occurr__ several m____s ago, the epidemic gotten w____e and this c____d lead to be a problem for m___ind. That is why we d___ded to w__k on Pr____t Ark. But make no mistake, this is not the end for the Co___y Fou____ion nor the future of m___ind. We w_ll find a c__e for the v___s. We s__cer__y th__k eve__on_ f_r your help and s____rt over the y___s. For now, we are goi__ u__er inves____ion a_d it would s___ th__ we m__ht've disc___ed the c__se of the...."

"What the hell? I can barely read this." This isn't any useful information at all! God dang it Rantaro!

"Well even so, it's still useful." Rantaro said, picking his ears a bit. "We just need to find a way to remove the smudges because they're pretty old and I don't think rubbing it with your thumb isn't gonna work."

"I wasn't gonna do that!" I retorted with a small pout.

"Yes you were." I turned to Nicole in shock as she continued "You might not notice it but you were twitching your index finger a bit from that letter." 

Huh? Seriously? She definitely sure has some good eyes. 

"Wow, it must be that hard to read, huh?" Kodi asked curiously.

"Yeah, tell me about it." I rubbed my head bashfully before letting out a yawn. "But man, we finally found a clue that might be useful to us, but this have to happen. As I expected..."

"So it would seem..." Nicole let out a yawn as she bored a tired look on her face. "Oh well, you can keep it if you want."

I gave her an incredulous and surprise look before asking "What? Seriously? You...want me to have it?" 

"I don't mind. You're not a bad person at all." Nicole stated. "In the meantime, I wanna know more about the situation and this world we are in."

"Hmm...I know we've met just a couple of hours before these guys came in, but I gotta say, you're quite the type who always get to the point." Rantaro chuckled, earning a blank look from the girl before she walked off and settling her iPad near the desk at her bed. "Jeez, that was rude."

I'm sure that she isn't trying to be rude, just probably shy. She did say that she was terrible at small talks.

"Well either way, at least we have a new friend to join us in and help solve the mysteries of this place and Equestria." I added, causing Nicole to look at me in confusion and asked "Friend?"

"Well yeah, we're friends now." I chuckled as she glanced away from me before saying something that caught me off-guard.

"I'm sorry but I rather not be called a friend." Nicole said bluntly, causing me and Kodi to feel surprise by that.

"W-what?" I asked in confusion.

"Yes, I...rather not be called a friend." Nicole repeated.

"But why? Is there something wrong being called a friend?" Kodi questioned curiously. Nicole glanced away before letting out a yawn and said "I'm sorry...I rather tell you tomorrow. I'm tired..."

Oh well...it is getting late and she deserves some sleep after the night she's been through. 

"Well that's our cue to take our leave, goodnight." Rantaro rolled his eyes before placing his hands in his pockets before walking over to the elevator while I looked at Nicole with a concern look, along with Kodiak. I don't get it, why doesn't she like being called a friend? It kinda makes me sad that she doesn't want to be our friends. Well like Mason, Rantaro, Jamie, and Jack before, I can try bonding with her tomorrow. And I can't wait for the others to hear and see her show up. 

"What now Ren?" Kodi asked, his ears drooping down. I gave him a soft smile before letting out a sigh and petted him on the head. 

"Don't worry boy, I'm sure she didn't mean it. We'll help her accept ours and the others' friendship tomorrow." I assured with a smile, which cheered Kodiak up. 

"Well alright." Kodi nodded before letting out a sigh. "Well I'm tucked out, wanna go and get the others and catch some Z's?"

"Yeah, lets go." I nodded before turning to Nicole, who took off her glasses and was about to settle in her new temporary bed. "Well...goodnight Nick."

".....Goodnight." With that, she let out a yawn before closing her eyes and went to sleep, having one of those bubbles popping out of her nose. I've seen that in anime and cartoon characters always dong that whenever they're sleeping. With that, me and Kodi left the room and into the elevator with Rantaro, who was busy with his phone. I still don't get why he would keep looking over that thing, I get because the home-ship has the strongest WiFi signal than all of us. Oh well...it's best not to divulge on that yet. 

Soon after, Rantaro headed back to his own room while me and Kodi arrived back to the shopping mall district, only to find out that they all were exhausted from all the investigation around this place. Heck, even Mason held his sister in his arms, who instantly fell asleep. Jack's face was covered with food stains on his face while Jamie had much more of a tired look than before. With that, we decided to uphold our investigation and talk about what we found in the morning. With that, we ended our investigation and went back to our respective rooms.

Me and Kodi headed back to my room while I looked over at the piece of paper in my hands, wondering what the contents of this letter means, especially at the end due to how much of this old smudge has. Man...this sucks...oh well, surely Twilight and the others can try to solve it.

"Feeling troubled, Ren?" Kodi asked, jumping onto my bed and laid next to me. 

"Yeah...just when we finally found some evidence on solving this mystery but this has to happen..." I sighed before placing the letter underneath my bed. "Oh well, I guess I'm gonna have to hopefully find more clues about this place."

"Yeah..." Kodi yawned before licking my nose, causing me to chuckle. "Well goodnight bro."

I smiled softly at Kodi before scratching him on his tummy, causing him to chuckle before I said "Yeah, goodnight bro."

With that, I closed my eyes and let my consciousness slipped into the darkness, going to sleep. Hopefully we can solve the mystery of this letter by tomorrow or so, as well as trying to make friends with Nicole Bonnie. Though I'll admit that her talent on reading other's and finding out their personalities, along seeing through their truth or lies, it's quite really impressive. Though maybe Carrie and Kodiak might have a point...what if she really is psychic?



The Next Day
....Mmmm, I soon got out of my bed and looked around to see that it was finally morning. Oh well, another day in Equestria where we can go around and learned valuable lessons. With that, me and Kodiak soon woke up as we headed over to the closet and I put on my regular attire, with the exception of my blue sweater since the season began to turn to Spring soon enough. 

We walked into the living room and straight into the dining room/kitchen as we saw everyone in there, all except one person.

"Huh? Where's Rantaro?" I asked, noticing that they weren't here.

Soon, Mason and Kaede came out wearing aprons carrying two trays each with plenty of food for breakfast. 

"I'm sorry but Rantaro went off to who knows where." Mason explained, settling the trays down. 

Kaede shook her head with a sigh and said "Jeez, that guy just loves being left alone."

"What you expect? That bastard is a broker, I still say we should tie him up and keep him quiet." Jack scoffed, gulping down his egg omelette in one gulp. I gave him a pleading look and said "Come on guys, we're all supposed to be friends. I still have faith in him."

"W-well...he is known for being the 'Shadow Broker' in the underworld society." Jamie pointed out, causing me to sigh heavily as everyone, including Nicole, settled down. 

"So anyway..." I spoke up as I continued "What did you guys find around the mall district area?"

Carrie immediately raised her hand with a bright grin and said "Oh! It was great! There was many food courts, shopping stores, a small playground and a movie theater!"

"A movie theater?!" I exclaimed in shock and joy. "Oh my god! So we have a movie theater here?!"

"Yeah, it was quite amazing to have one!" Kaede giggled with a grin. "Apparently, each of the movie theater rooms have a device that shows any type of movie you wish to see."

"I can confirm this. I checked up every room from top to bottom." Mason nodded, taking off his apron and settling it down on the chair he was seating. "So it would seem that we can view which type of movie we wish to watch."

"W-well...that's seem pretty useful." Jame softly smiled, writing it down in his notebook. "W-well anyway, so it would seem pretty useful."

"Okay, but what about the next room? Found anything useful?" Jack questioned me, causing me to blink in surprise before taking out the letter out of my pockets.

"Well yeah...we explored Nicole's room and found this on her desk..." I showed it to them as Kaede received it and tried to eat it, but returned a confused look.

"What the heck? There's too many smudges, I can barely read this!" Kaede exclaimed.

"Are you frigging kidding me?!" Jack exclaimed. 

"Really? Too many smudges?" Jamie asked as Kaede handed him the letter as he inspected it, rubbing his chin in thought. "Hmm...interesting...astonishing..."

"And what's so interesting and astonishing about a piece of scrap?" Jack questioned.

"Well it might be a clue." Jamie pointed out. "Whatever it said must be useful. Right now we need to find something to uncovered the smudges."

"Can't we use some ointment to get rid of them?" Carrie asked.

"No...it's not possible." We looked back at Nicole, who let out a yawn and had an exhausted look on her face. 

"What the hell have you been doing? Sleeping?" Jack questioned.

"Yes." She answered bluntly, causing him to give her a deadpanned look before saying "I was being-"

"Sarcastic, I know." She cut off as she furrowed her brows with a serious look on her face as she continued "But overall, it's best to keep that letter for safekeeping. If your friends are able to figure it out and have some ointment then maybe we might have a chance to figure it out."

"...Whatever." Jack blushed, glancing away from her. 

"By the way, I am quite curious to know more about this world." Nicole said, looking through her iPad. "It does seem quite weird seeing many new species, correct?"

"True." Mason nodded, crossing his arms. "But besides that, our new friends are quite friendly so-"

"Don't be afraid, I won't." She stated, startling him a bit. "I am quite eager to learn more about these guys."

"But she doesn't look like she's eager." Carrie whispered to Kaede, who nodded in agreement as she replied "Tell me about it."

"So...are we ready or not?" She asked curiously.

"Alright, well even so I should take my sister to school." Mason said, getting up from his chair. "She has an education to keep learning."

"Yep! And it's just fun having fun with Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle." Carrie giggled before grabbing her small backpack as the two began to take their leave. 

"Well...I got nothing else to do." Jack shrugged. "I'll go and see if old Skittles is in to hang out with me." 

He let out a loud burp, which made the rest of us to chuckle.

"Took the words right out of my mouth." Kodi chuckled.

"....." Nicole turned her head a bit away from us before letting out a yawn. Soon after, she began to take her leave, much to our surprise.

"H-hey! Wait for us Nikki!" I called, gaining confusion from the others upon from the name I gave her. "What? It's a nickname Rantaro came up, so I thought I could give it a try."

"Well alright then." Kaede giggled as the rest of us soon got up and began leaving the place, following after Nicole. Jamie soon walked forward towards with an excited look on his face and asked "H-hey, If you don't mind...if you I could ask you about your work..."

"Hmm...maybe another time." She replied, gazing at her iPad before looking around the scenery with an expressionless look before typing something into her iPad. Jeez, she's around a grassy land and sees Ponyville over by a distance, and yet she isn't surprised or...anything? Dang, she...really knows how to stay calm under a situation like this.

"O-oh...right. Sorry." Jamie apologized with a sad look. "I-I guess maybe she isn't in the mood, huh?"

"It would seem so." Kaede shrugged as we walked through the path where we saw Fluttershy's cottage off the distance, and Rainbow Dash was banging straight out of the door.

"Open up already! What's taking so long?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as the rest of us showed up. Nicole looked at Rainbow Dash with slightly widened eyes before asking "Is...there a problem, ma'am?"

"Yeah, just trying to get Fluttershy to come out for practice and-" The moment Rainbow Dash turned her head around, she jaw-dropped upon seeing Nicole. "W-what the?! Another human?!" 

"Yeah, that was our reaction." I pointed out. "Her name is Nicole Bonnie, she's a psychologist and just a new friend of ours that awakened in the home-ship like the rest of us."

"A psych-what?" Rainbow questioned.

"Psychologist are known for their studies in mental processes and human behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how people relate to one another and the environment." Jamie explained. "It's a basic study on human or in this case, a pony's emotion." 

"Ahh..." Rainbow nodded before returning a blank look and replied "I still don't get it."

"Can't argue with that, Skittles." Jack shrugged, scratching his butt bashfully.

"It can't be that complicated...." Nicole stated, glancing towards Rainbow Dash. "You get used to learning about psychology."

"Yeah, I rather not become an egghead." Rainbow rolled her eyes before flying straight towards Nicole and observed her. "Jeez, you sure look plain."

Nicole went silent upon hearing that as I stepped forward and said "Dash, please be nice."

"What? Why-"

"Shouldn't I? Is that correct?" Nicole guessed, catching Rainbow by surprise.

"Yeah? How-"

"Did I figure that out? Was that you were gonna say?" Rainbow blinked in shock before asking "Okay, how-"

"Are you doing that?" 

"Okay, stop that! It's annoying!" Rainbow grunted.

"Trust us, she's quite unpredictable." Kaede sighed.

"So what's up? Why do you need Fluttershy?" Kodi asked curiously.

"Oh, there's gonna be a practice-meet for help with the highland reservoir source for Cloudsdale." Rainbow explained, confusing us all about it.

"A what?" I asked curiously.

"Oh right, you guys never heard about it. So you see, every year, we Pegasi worked together to create a tornado to fill up Cloudsdale with tons of rain-filled clouds to every corner of Equestria. By working together, we can create a Pegasi-driven tornado power to pull water out of the local reservoir and funnel it all the way up to Cloudsdale." Rainbow explained, which seemed to impressed us all.

"Amazing! That's gotta be quite unique!" Kaede smiled.

"Ha, I would like to see how it goes." Jack chuckled. "And it would makes for you to get into this, Skittles."

"Are you kidding, fatty? Of course I would!" Rainbow laughed. "Besides, maybe our new friend here could watch the event and see how it's done."

"Hmm...no thank you." Nicole answered bluntly, much to Rainbow's confusion.

"Wait what? Why?" Rainbow asked. "I mean, since you're new here I thought you might at least get a good view at our traditions and see Ponyville at least."

"No thank you." Nicole replied, much to Rainbow's irritation.

"Trust us, even we gave up trying to understand her." I shrugged with a sigh before smiling over Dash. "But the rest of us won't mind watching you guys do this."

"Damn straight! So what the heck not? Might get a chance to see your wings in action." Jack commented, earning a smile from Rainbow's face before she punched his shoulder and said "Ha! I knew I could count on you guys!"

"Umm...Rainbow Dash?" Jamie called. "This whole Pegasi-driven tornado power for extracting the water to Cloudsdale. You said that it's for filling up the clouds with water for rain, correct? Does it have to do with the upcoming season of Spring?"

"Well yeah, we do this every year." Rainbow said. "But it's not just about helping Cloudsdale onto their rain-filled clouds problem."

"It's not?" I asked. "What could be more important than that?"

"The record for making a powerful tornado!" Rainbow exclaimed in joy. "See, apparently that Spitfire, captain of the Wonderbolts will be here to oversee the water transfer and record our top tornado windspeed."

"Record your top tornado windspeed?" Kodi asked curiously. "How does that work?"

"Duh, whoever has the highest tornado windspeed will be remembered as legends! It could be my one step dream on becoming a Wonderbolt!" Rainbow flew around with a giddy look on her face. "Last year, Fillydelphia broke the windspeed record with a top speed of nine hundred and ten wing power!"

That caused all of us, excluding Nicole, to be shocked upon hearing that. No way, now that's gotta be real wing power there!

"No way! And you're gonna try to beat that record?!" Kaede exclaimed.

"Heck yeah! No way I'm gonna back away from this! That's why I came over to Fluttershy's cottage in order to get her to come out!" Rainbow explained with an excited grin before snorting and crossing her hooves. "But apparently she didn't show up for practice earlier ago and I'm still trying to get her to come out."

"Really? You want Fluttershy to compete in it as well?" I asked incredulous.

"Well duh, so-"

"You can try to convince her to help with the water tornado assortment and caused you want her to at least have fun, correct?" Rainbow gaped at Nicole's deductions before shaking her head and asked "Okay, how in Equestria did you figured that out?"

"Mouth movements, your face showing off some slight irritation and impatience, and your left wing was twitching a bit." Nicole answered, earning a confused look from Rainbow Dash as the former walked over and inspected her wings before looking over her iPad. "Interesting..."

"Holy cow...she's literally too calm to see this." Kodi whispered to me, which I nodded with a surprised look on my face. Seriously, are all psychologists this calm?  

"W-what are you doing?" Rainbow questioned.

"Just studying you..." Nicole answered before going silent, which made Rainbow to look at her with a raised brow before turning to us, which made us shrugged as well. 

"Riiight...." Rainbow raised a brow before turning away from her before knocking on Fluttershy's door. "Anyway, come on out Fluttershy! Come on out and try to come to practice!"

"Wait wait wait, what?" I asked in confusion and surprise. "You're gonna invite her to practice?"

"Yeah, what's so wrong about that?" Uhh...everything? I'm just nervous that you're gonna take Fluttershy to partake in this. I mean, will she even want to partake in it?

"U-umm....what if she doesn't want to participate in it?" Jamie questioned, also unsure about this. Rainbow rolled her eyes and replied "Oh please, of course she does! Besides, she can't keep living in fear every year when we try to do this!"

"Skittles' right." Jack nodded, crossing his arms. "If she keeps acting up like a spineless coward, she won't be able to fight back like you for example."

Jamie winced upon hearing Jack compare him to Flutterhsy.

"See? Even fatty has a point." With that, Rainbow kept banging on the door before exclaiming "Fluttershy? I know you're in there! You're avoiding tornado duty and I want to know why! Fluttershy, open-"

And just like that, the cottage's door slowly opened up, revealing Fluttershy with polka dots all over her body with a mask on her muzzle.

"Achoo!" She sneezed. "Hi, Rainbow Dash, hi Ren, hi Kodiak, hi Kaede, hi Jamie, hi Jack, hi new girl..." The moment she said that last part, she immediately turned to Nicole with a shocked look on her face. "N-n-new girl? New human?!"

"Yes." Nicole answered bluntly. "I'm Nicole Bonnie and you must be one of the ponies that's been accompanying them....I think."

"Y-yes? I'm-"

"Fluttershy, right?" Fluttershy widened her eyes in shock before stuttering "H-how did she-"

"Trust us, even we're confused by how she does it." I stated with a shrug before making a worried look and asked "Anyway Fluttershy, what happened to you? What's up with the spots?"

"Oh, I...*sniff*...I think I have...*cough**cough*...the pony pox." Fluttershy answered, paling a bit.

"Oh man, really?" I blinked with a worried look.

"So soon as well?" Kaede asked in surprise. "So suddenly?!"

"Y-yeah...*sniff**sniff*...I'm so sorry. I really, really wanted to come to training day today..." She let out another weak cough, prompting me to walk over and comforted her by holding onto her hoof with my hand, which made her smile before looking back at Rainbow Dash and said "But this pony pox has really knocked me for a loop."

Rainbow formed a sympathetic look at her and said "Oh, you poor thing. You know, there's only one cure for pony pox."

Fluttershy let out a sigh of relief before saying "You're right. Plenty of rest-"

Before she could finish, she was drenched with water which was from Rainbow Dash, who somehow held a bucket in her hands. Immediately, I looked to see the 'spots' were being wiped off, much to my shock. 

"Cold water!" Rainbow exclaimed with a glare. "Those pony pox are clearing right up."

"F-Flutters?!" I asked in shock. Fluttershy returned a sheepish smile before saying "Y-You know what? All of a sudden, I'm...I"m starting to feel better."

"Fluttershy...what's going on?" Jamie questioned with a raised brow. "I-I don't think I've seen act up like this..."

I have.

"W-well anyway, I should go and get my robe and-OW!" She immediately fell down as I bend down with a concerned look on my face as I asked "A-Are you okay?"

"Y-yeah...it's just my wing. Oh, ow, it's hurt." She winces before saying "I guess I can't fly after all..."

"She's lying." Nicole stated, furrowing her brows. "Apparently, she doesn't want to go to this practice you're talking about Ms. Rainbow Dash."

"Just call me Rainbow Dash." Rainbow stated with a blank look before turning to Fluttershy and demanded "And seriously Fluttershy? Messed up wing, huh? Stop horsing around, Fluttershy. We've got a lot of training to do!"

"Fluttershy..." I looked over at her with a worried look as I asked "What's wrong?"

"Yeah, it can't be that bad." Kodi said with a small smile. "I mean, what with flying through a giant tornado, being into the air, and..."

Fluttershy began shivering in fear before burrowing her face in my chest, causing me to give him a sweat-drop and a nervous smile as I replied "No offense boy, but I think you're just making things worse."

"Oops, sorry." Kodi grinned sheepishly.

"Seriously? What? You're afraid of flying?" Jack asked irritably. "It's simple as riding a motorcycle for goddamn's sake."

"B-but I just can't!" Fluttershy exclaimed, but it was just some muffling, which earned confused looks from the others.

"She's saying that she can't." I explained, which the others nodded in agreement.

"Wait, why?" Kaede asked, only to receive a groan from Rainbow Dash.

"Ugh...I think I know why." We turned to Rainbow Dash as she had a deadpanned look and said "It's because what happened back in Flight Camp."

"Oh..." I muttered, looking down at her as I remembered her conversation about Flight Camp, saying that she was bullied and taunted a lot for her weak flying. "I see now..." I patted her on the back, cheering her up a bit.

"Oh? Was this 'Flight Camp' so bad?" Nicole asked, feeling intrigued by this.

Fluttershy uncovered her chest and looks towards her with a small nod.

"Jeez, how bad?" Jack asked with slightly widened eyes.

"It wasn't bad. It was terrible!" Fluttershy yelled out. "All of those foals...teasing me, a lot! They always kept telling me 'Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly fly!'"

I held her hoof and gave her a soft hug, calming her down a bit while Kodiak came over and licked her on the face, causing her to giggle at that.

"Oh, that's so cruel!" Kaede exclaimed, feeling terrible for Fluttershy.

"I-I see...it really was that bad..." Jamie said with a sad look on his face.

"What are you talking about? Just last week you went into that wicked nose dive to save that falling baby bird before it hit the ground!"

Fluttershy immediately shook her head and retorted "But that was different, that was an emergency! This whole tornado thing, it's more like a performance, and you know how I hate performing in front of others."

"Was this from your Flight Camp experience?" Nicole questioned, which she nodded. 

"Yes, I didn't want anypony to just look at me weirdly or mocking me!" Fluttershy cried out. "I just can't risk that sort of humiliation again!"

"Don't worry Flutters, I'm here for you." I comforted her with a soft kiss on the cheek, causing her to blush a bit with a smile on her face.

"At least you get it Ren." Fluttershy smiled softly until hearing a scoff from Jack.

"Oh please, that's just ridiculous and I thought Jamie's reason of being a coward was plain pathetic." Jamie flinched at Jack's words, feeling that comment stung a bit, along with Fluttershy. 

"Jack!" Kaede scolded.

"I-it's alright Kaede...I'm used to it." Jamie insisted, glancing downwards with a sad look.

"No! Fatty's right!" Rainbow nodded, turning over to Fluttershy and said "You have to suck it up, Fluttershy! This is no time for-"

"Are you seriously gonna keep being trapped in a chain of your traumatic experience?" Huh? Nicole? We all looked over to her as she held a serious look on her face as she continued "You need to conquer that fear that tightens around your heart or else it'll remained trapped and you'll be afraid of the world."

"N-Nicole?" I asked in surprise before she glanced away and stated "I understand if you're afraid Ms. Fluttershy, but you need to relax and calm down. And don't worry, I'm sure you'll show most of your classmates like Billy, Dumbbell, and Hoops that you aren't afraid of doing this if you manage to train your body for it."

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash widened their eyes in shock upon hearing that as the former hesitantly asked "H-how...how do you know that?"

".....Hm?" She asked, tilting her head in confusion.

"She means how in Equestria do you know those names?! She didn't even tell you the names of her classmates from Flight Camp at all!" Rainbow exclaimed in anger and shock. Nicole went silent before turning her head away a bit and said "...You know what? Forget what I said. I'm sure it wasn't important..."

With that, she began walking off while we stood in surprise. Oh my god, this girl really unpredictable, am I right?

"...Riiiight." Rainbow looked back at Fluttershy and said "She might have a point. I mean, confidence or no confidence, I'm gonna need every Pegasus to break the record, including you. I need every ounce of wing power I can get."

"You seemed pretty determined on accomplishing it." I commented, which made Rainbow nodded with a smile on her face.

"Course I am! I need to beat this record so that the Wonderbolts would be impress by my skills! It's the perfect plan, am I right?!"

"B-but...is it really that important?" Jamie questioned, earning a dramatic gasp from Dash herself.

"I'm just gonna pretend that I did not hear that Jamie!" Rainbow scoffed. "I'm gonna beat that record and I won't back down from it!"

"Yeah, at least give Skittles a chance." Jack said, glaring at Jamie as glanced away sadly and apologized "I-I'm sorry..."

"Oh, I-I don't think so, Rainbow Dash..." Fluttershy said, exiting out of my arms with an unsure and depressed look on her face. Fortunately for her, Rainbow Dash had a disappointed look on her face and said "Thanks anyway."

Rainbow Dash soon began to take flight and planned to leave until I noticed Fluttershy biting her upper lip, like she wanted to say something. Soon, I let out a shout.

"Hey Rainbow Dash! Wait!" Rainbow stopped in her tracks before looking back and flew in front of me and asked "Yes?"

"Well....maybe if Fluttershy comes with me, then maybe she'll be a bit encouraged by that?" I suggested, which made Fluttershy smiled a bit. "Don't you think so Flutters?"

"W-well..." Fluttershy looked away from us with a worried look before looking back at us with a soft smile. "Alright. I'll do it."

"You will?" Rainbow asked with a raised brow.

"I will."

"You're game?"

"I'm game."

"Alright!" Rainbow flew into the air with an excited look on her face, yelling that word out. 

"Fluttershy, are you sure about this?" Kaede asked in worried.

"Yeah, you don't have to do this." Kodi added, feeling concern for his friend.

"But...I have to try. After all, you all might help me out..." Fluttershy smiled, which made most of us smiled. Well I guess that's a relief. "And thank you for encouraging me Ren, and I'll thank that nice lady later for giving me that advice."

"Well anytime Flutters." I chuckled. Well I'm glad that she's feeling better and I am curious to see this wind-powered tornado these guys are gonna make. I know that Pegasi are known for their weather-controlling powers, so I want to see how they do it.



Later
Wow, that's a lot of Pegasi. I didn't even know that we have this many here in Ponyville. Sooner or later, we finally arrived to a track & field area just northeast of the town and a bunch of Pegasi were lined up in front of the track while I noticed Twilight and Spike working on some sort of electric fan. Kaede, Jack, Jamie, Kodiak, Fluttershy, and I were seen standing right next to the Pegasi group, though some of them gazed towards Jack, who noticed it and always shut them up with a hard glare. I guess even being here for who knows how long and yet they didn't get to know some of us yet. 

Soon, I noticed two pair of ponies, who seemed to be twins due to have the same mane color and tail, but with different mane-styles, and had the same fur coat as they walked over to Twilight and Spike as one of the twins pointed over to the small electric fan and asked "What exactly does this machine do?"

"This is an anemometer. It measures your accelerative velocity and translates it into wing power, thus gauging your cumulative H2O anti-gravitational potential." Twilight explained, earning confused looks from all of us, except Jamie as he fully understood what it mean. "Any other questions?"

"Yeah." The second twin nodded before turning to Spike as the two twins had confused looks and asked "What exactly does this machine do?"

Spike glances towards them and answered "It tells you how fast you're fast you're flying and how strong your wings are."

"Ohhh...Okay...I see...." The Pegasi group nodded with smiles on their faces, fully understanding the invention while Twilight's left eye twitch before face-hooving herself. Jamie walked over and had a sympathy smile and said "I-it's alright Twilight. I-I understood everything you said."

Twilight returned a smile towards him, feeling a bit better while the rest of us just walked over to her as Twilight greeted "Oh hey you guys, I'm so glad that you're here."

"Yeah, Dash told us the news." I replied with a smile. "Oh yeah, you're not gonna believe it but we encountered another human."

Twilight widened her eyes in shock before pulling me close towards her face when she levitated me over to her.

"Are. You. Serious?! Another human here in Equestria?!" I nodded, answering Twilight's question before beaming with excitement. "Ooooh! This is so amazing! Another one of your kind here in our world! This is so exciting! Quick, where are they?!"

"She flew the coop." Jack answered with a scoff. "That woman just left us in the dust like it was nothing."

"Really?" Twilight asked incredulous, including Spike who seemed to be interested in this.

"Yeah, she was quite...weird for how she took it, including her psychology works." Kaede rubbed her head bashfully before we noticed the bright grin on Twilight's face.

"Oh! So she's a psychologist?! This is extraordinary! I can't wait to interview her with many questions about her occupation and what she works on!" Twilight exclaimed in excitement while the rest of us looked at each other with worried. 

"That's gonna be a problem due to her personality." Kodi muttered.

"Yeah, but hopefully she's cooperative." I sighed before we heard a cough coming from behind, causing us to look back and saw somepony coughing.

"Ugh." Twilight groaned before taking out some sort of spray can out of nowhere as it was floating by using her magic as she turned to a black pony with a light blue Mohawk style mane. "Is that you again, Thunderlane? Please, we need to have a germ-free environment."

She moved over to the pony, fully known as Thunderlane, which is quite a cool name I'll admit unlike the others as Twilight sprayed the can on him, much to his irritation.

"It wasn't me, it was Blossomforth." He pointed over to the mare next to him, which made her surprise.

"Tch...wimps." Jack rolled his eyes.

"Oh man, looks like they got some colds." Kaede pointed out. "I just hope that they won't get sick."

That's what I'm worried about too. Though...why do I have this bad feeling about this?

"Yo!" We soon saw Rainbow Dash flying down onto the track with a coach's hat and whistle on her as she said "I got here as sooner as I can! Just needed my stuff."

"Your coaching them?" Kodi asked, tilting his head in confusion.

"Duh!" Rainbow grinned. "I'm the captain of the Ponyville Weather Team, so it would make sense."

"Ha, you? Coaching these bastards?" Jack joked, ignoring the angry glares sent to him. "I probably be a better student than them."

"Yeah sure fatty, when you're a Pegasus." Rainbow chuckled, ignoring the scowl from the biker himself. "Anyway, don't worry Twilight. Thunderlane's just cooking up an excuse to spend tornado day in bed."

"Hey!" Thunderlane shouted in offense.

"W-why would she say that?" Jamie whispered to me and Jack, which the latter replied "It's a way to encourage suckers like them because most people or ponies have short-tempers."

Sorta like you dude.

"Which reminds me, we should probably do our annual training later today when Mason's get back." Jack grinned, causing the both of us to gulp and sweat-dropped. I almost forgot that we've started doing that weeks ago. Oh man, not another one of those tiring exercises that nearly makes me wanna die...

"Why don't you get over here and be our first test flyer, Thunderlane?" We looked over to see Thunderlane stepping up to the plate as he stood next to the fan-like invention as he prepared to practice with it. Though there was one question that filled our minds...how exactly does it work?

Soon, he got into a racing position before rapidly flapping his wings and went off, going through the fan-like invention as it began spinning around till it stopped as Twilight observed the monitor on it.

"We have 9.3 wing power." Twilight answered, earning impressed looks by us.

"Wow! That's fast!" Kaede exclaimed in awe. "But I bet not as nearly as fast as Rainbow Dash."

"Of course!" Rainbow grinned cockily. "Nopony can take down this pony in a race!" 

"Wanna bet?" Jack joked, earning a glare from the rainbow Pegasus herself.

"Alright, prepare to be amaze and get your sorry butt apologizing Jack." Rainbow chuckled darkly before flying over to the starting line, and began stretching her hooves and wings before flapping rapidly and immediately dashed off towards it, and once she did, it spun out of control as she created a strong blast of wind towards us, causing us all to stand firmly on the ground until I noticed Fluttershy unable to stand in her ground and was about to be blown away until I immediately caught her by the hooves.

"O-oh! T-thank you Ren!" Fluttershy said with a smile and blush. I nodded before looking over at Twilight looked at the monitor with a shocked and yet excited look on her face, even her mane was all frazzled out.

"16.5 wing power!" We all gasped before letting out a cheer while Jack jaw-dropped upon seeing that happened.

"Ha ha! You like that?" Rainbow grinned before she slugged Jack's right shoulder, causing him to grumble in anger.

"S-shut up Skittles.." He blushed a bit, feeling embarrassed that he was proven wrong.

"That's so amazing!" Kaede said in awe and glee. "I know that Rainbow Dash was fast, but I never knew she can go that fast!"

"Yeah! Sonic the Hedgehog Style!" I added with a surprised look. Seriously though, does anyone out there know how to get Sonic because if he was here, he would compete this pony in a race to see who's the fastest? I think there was even a Youtube video about it the two fastest blue blurs facing off against each other in a race once, right? I'm not being crazy, right?

"You betcha!" Rainbow grinned excitedly.

"Amazing, this anemometer is quite astonishing Twilight." Jamie said in awe, copying the description and such onto one of his new notebooks that he gotten from Santa. "Tell me, how did you prepare this?"

"Well Rainbow Dash and the other Pegasi held a meeting at the library late at night and so me and Spike worked on it all day. Sorry if you missed out on the fun." Twilight apologized with a soft smile.

"No no, it's quite alright. It's understandable what with meeting with the new ally of ours and such..." Jamie blushed a bit. Gosh, I never seen him this excited before...like I think I rarely hear him not stuttering about anything. I guess because he's excited and quite curious about that anemometer Twilight made.

"He sure is happy, eh Ren?" Kodi chuckled, which I smiled and nodded at that.

"Now listen up!" We all turned to Rainbow Dash with a serious look on her face. "If each of you can get your numbers up to at least 10.0 wing power by the end of the week, we'll no doubt set a new tornado speed record. We'll be number one!"

"YEAH!" Whoa, what the heck?! We looked back to see that caught my eye and shocked us all. We gaze upon a tall white Pegasus that makes you think 'God, this pony sure didn't miss leg day' for sure because he has those bulking biceps and muscles all over his body! I mean, look at it, do you see anypony with huge muscles like that!

"Holy crap!" I yelled out. "Look at the size of that guy!"

"Yeah, I think that guy could possibly be as strong as Mason or Jack." Kaede added.

"Somepony we should definitely stepped away from." Kodi whispered, which some of us agreed. Though...he doesn't act like Jack just because of his bulk and he isn't fat, so he could possibly be friendly...despite his loud vocal chords.

"Oh, that's Bulk Biceps." Fluttershy answered. "I've seen him many times over by the spa and he's quite a good at giving customers a massage."

"Really?" I asked in surprise. So this pony works by the Ponyville Spa and gives customers some massages? Well I never seen noticed the guy at all, but hearing about this....makes me want to keep a mental note about watching out for this guy if any of us goes to the spa.

"Am I late?" Huh? Oh hey, it's Mason! He was seen walking towards us with a soft smile seen through his long red scarf as I happily greeted him back.

"Oh hey Mason, you just arrived to see Rainbow coaching these guys for some water reservoir event." Mason smiled a bit and replied "Well...I'm glad I didn't miss it. I came searching for you guys on where you might've been after I delivered Carrie to the Ponyville school."

"Heh heh, well we kinda got some change of plans." Kaede rubbed her head bashfully with a sheepish smile on her face until Mason noticed that we are missing a little someone.

"Hm? Where is Nicole? Surely you didn't lose her?" 

"We didn't lose her...she just wandered off after we arrived in front of Fluttershy's cottage." Kodi explained before adding "And I gotta say, there is seriously up with her. I am not denying that she might be psychic."

"Please." Mason rolled his eyes before petting him on the head. "I know that we've seen weird stuff all over this place, but it's not possible that a psychologist can literally be psychic."

I don't know about that for sure. I mean, she literally knew about Dumbbell, Hoops, and Billy names, one of the ponies that teased Fluttershy back at Flight Camp when she was little, so I wouldn't say that it's not 'possible' or maybe farfetch'd that she can psychic.

"Though I am quite concern for Nicole." Kaede stated, feeling concerned for her. "I think I should go on and look for her."

"Good idea Kay." I said with a soft smile. "Just be careful."

"Aren't I always?" She giggled before she began running off, leaving us boys behind while we decided to observe Rainbow Dash coaching these guys onto creating a powerful wind with Jamie, Twilight, and Spike working together to monitor each Pegasi's speed limit.

Me, Jack, Fluttershy and Mason were seen sitting down a nearby bench as we watched each Pegasi one by one testing out and seeing their wing power.

"Man...it's been nearly an hour. What's taking so long?" Jack groaned.

"Be patient Jack. You need to learn to calm that temper of yours." Mason stated, sitting in a criss-cross position before stretching a bit. I looked over to my right to see Kodiak playing around with Nate and Maddy, the Squirrel Twins, as they were seemingly having fun.  

"I am CALM!" Jack grunted angrily, causing me to sweat-dropped at that comment. Since when did I ever seen him calm besides yesterday's adventure to the Dragon Lands.

"You two need to calm down." I sighed. "Come on, we're supposed to be friends and we can't just sit around and keep arguing all day."

"He's right." Mason nodded in agreement, which made Jack sighed.

"Y-you're right....I'll take ya on that offer kiddo." Jack blew some of his air upwards before his top bangs landed back on his forehead, causing me to chuckle a bit. You know, despite his rough behavior as a biker, he's not so much of a bad guy. 

Soon, I heard a long sigh from Fluttershy as I turned to her and saw that she was feeling down in the dumps.

"You okay Flutters?" I asked in concern, only to receive a shook from her head. "Do you wanna talk about it? If not, then I understand if it's uncomfortable."

"No Ren...it's not that. It's just that..." Fluttershy gazed over to see Rainbow Dash talking with one of the participants about something. Soon, she let out another heavy sigh with a sad look on her face and said "I wanna help them out so bad."

"So why not do it?" I asked in confusion. "If I knew you really didn't want to go, I wouldn't have say anything nor you changing your mind about Rainbow's offer."

"I-I just don't want Rainbow Dash to feel disappointed in me...I'm just useless." Fluttershy gazes down on the park bench with a sad look on her face until I placed my hand on her hoof, grabbing her attention as I gave her a determined look.

"Don't feel bad Fluttersh, I have faith in you. I know that you can show them all that you're the best pony ever and like NIcole stated earlier, you just need to conquer that fear in you."

Fluttershy looked at me for a while before softly smiling.

"Oh Ren..." Heh heh, so this is what romance feels like? It...sorta feels weird doing this in real life, I'll admit. Fluttershy is known for being this town's local animal caretaker and maybe I rarely see her take to the skies like fifty feet into the air, but I have faith that she can do it.

"Fluttershy, your turn." With the sound of her whistle, we looked over to see Rainbow Dash waiting impatiently for her.

"Oh! R-right! Coming Rainbow Dash!" Fluttershy called before directing her attention to me. "I gotta go! Wish me luck Ren."

With that, she kissed me on the nose which caught me by surprise as she immediately flew over there while I blinked in surprise and blushed a bit. Man, it feels kinda weird being kissed by a pony, but hey, this is love here people so it doesn't matter.

"You alright?" Jack laughed, causing me to snap out of my thoughts and flushed in embarrassment while Mason gave me a small grin. "Because I think your girlfriend really sure knows how to make you blush!"

"H-hey! Knock it off you guys!" I exclaimed, getting more laughter from the biker as he fell off his seat and continued to laugh over that.

"Well so it would seem that Fluttershy seems to be only encouraged by you alone." Mason mused, adding more embarrassment to me.

"Mason!" Seriously? You guys suck.

Soon, I looked back at Fluttershy about to perform her wing power test. Soon, she got to the starting line and weakly flapped her wings before she slowly began flying over to the fan, and it barely moved. I then noticed a bunch of ponies from earlier snickering upon seeing Fluttershy's flying, causing me to frown towards them. Jeez, like they don't know about being humiliated. 

As soon as Fluttershy past through the anemometer, Jamie looked over at the monitor before forming a worried look and whispered something to Twilight, who returned a shocked look on her face before gesturing Rainbow to come close, which she did as she whispered something into the Pegasus's ear, causing her to feel worried. Oh no...don't tell me that...

"Um...great job, Fluttershy!" Rainbow weakly grinned at her as Fluttershy held a small hopeful grin on her face. "You measured, uh...uh, .5."

....A .5? Her wing power is...a .5?! Are you kidding right now?!

"Well...that's an embarrassment, even for her." Jack said bluntly, earning two glares from me and Mason towards him.

".5? Isn't that like...less than one?" Spike questioned, earning a whack in the head by Twilight, who gave him a stern look. "OW!"

"W-what?" She squeaked in shock before looking around to see many Pegasi looking at her with smiles, causing her to pant heavily and tears began to form in her eyes. I got up from my bench and tried to help her as I called "Fluttershy?"

With that, she broke into tears before immediately flying off in humiliation. 

"Fluttershy, wait!" Rainbow called. "So some punks poked a little fun at you and you got stage fright, big deal. You aren't gonna go quit just because of that, are you?"

"Yes!" She replied back as me, Kodiak, Mason, and Jack chased after her. Oh man, this is bad! To think that her fears would come back fearing her at least, now this is bad! But unbeknownst to us, a familair fedora wearing figure was seen watching us from afar with a slight frown on his face as he watched Fluttershy fly back home in tears, causing him to sigh and shook his head.

"Can't even fight back the past, eh Gizmo?"

Gizmo popped right out of his hat and looked at Rantaro with a sympathetic look, causing him to roll his eyes and replied "I don't need sympathy. We've been through this Gizmo."

Gizmo nuzzled his face, making Rantaro smirk before giving him a high-five. "Thanks I guess." With that, he began walking away until he let out a mutter.

"Now to find little miss mind-reader..."



Later
"Flutters?" I knocked on the door, waiting so eagerly yet anxious to see her. After that little practice meet, we followed after her to check up on her, especially since we just seen her cried in humiliation and is probably too depressed. I...just wanna check up on her.

"Are we even sure she's even in there?" Kodi asked before we heard a loud crying coming out of her house.

"You think?" Jack asked sarcastically. 

"Look guys, we need to get her attention and try to help her." I stated, not wanting any of us to argue right now, especially not in a time like this. I kept banging on her door, but all I heard was more crying. I let out a sigh before saying "Oh well, guess it's time for plan B."

"And that would be?" Mason raised a brow as I walked around the cottage, with the others following me as we looked around at her big backyard before noticing her over by the giant tree as she was seen crying so hard and with the other animals giving her sympathetic looks and comforting her. "Wait, you knew that she might be here?"

"Yeah, she once showed me this place a while back." I nodded, earning a confused look from Kodiak.

"But wait, why didn't you bring that up?" Kodi questioned.

"Because it would be rude to just go around the back, but this is just an exception because she's feeling too depressed." I replied with a shrug, earning a face-palm from them.

"Just shut the hell up and go to your girl." Jack grunted impatiently, which made me nervously chuckle upon hearing Jack call her 'my girl'. It sorta makes me feels embarrassed.

"Fluttershy?" I called, causing her to raise her head out of the ground with a sad look on her face while the animals looked at us with worriedness.

"H-hi Ren...Mason...Kodiak...Jack..." She placed her head back onto a ground and continued to cry out as we past some of the critters as I sat down next to her and placed my hand on her hoof with a sympathetic look.

"Hey, don't feel bad Fluttershy. I mean, sure you got humiliated but hey, I humiliate myself from time and time again back in my world and here, so there's no need for all the crying." I said, earning blank looks from Mason and Jack and a chuckle and amused smile from Kodiak.

"Oh yes, he sure has." 

"Many as I can frigging count, especially yesterday."

"I don't know, I wouldn't say from time to time, Ren."

I gave the three a nervous chuckle while I rubbed my head bashfully until I felt Fluttershy holding me tight, plunging her face into my chest.

"W-what?" I blurted out in surprise as Fluttershy cried "I'm such a failure! I can't make more wing power! My own wing power is .5! I-I-I can't do it Ren! I can't do it in front of those other ponies nor help out with making the tornado! I can't take it anymore!" 

"Fluttershy..." I muttered, hugging her back. "I understand how you feel....you're upset and so am I. But you can't just give up so easily."

"Exactly my point. That's just what a coward would've done." Jack rolled his eyes.

"Ren has a point, Fluttershy." Mason nodded in agreement. "You need to help out and conquer that fear that you've been holding back. You know that not everypony is gonna make fun of you."

"I-I know...but I just can't face the humiliation!" Fluttershy cried out as I gave her a sympathetic look before noticing the rest of the animals coming out of their hiding spots and looked at Fluttershy with sympathetic looks. Nate and Maddy popped out of Mason's scarf and took out some acorns before placing it down on the ground for Fluttershy, which she noticed as she let out a soft smile towards them.

"Oh, thank you, but I'm afraid a couple of little acorns won't solve my big flying problem."

Soon, a duck let out some quacking but Fluttershy was able to translate what he said.

"I tried, but you should've seen those ponies laughing at me..." Fluttershy cried.

A couple of birds flew and landed on my head and began chirping at Fluttershy.

"I know it's important to have confidence in myself..."

A badger walked over and let out a squeak, and made some gestures making Fluttershy smiled.

"Yes, yes, I do remember. The river was swelling..." The badger let out another squeak as Fluttershy translated "...and you were scared...."

"And he also says to never give up and to believe in yourself." Mason added, earning surprised looks from the rest of us.

"How did you know?" I asked in surprise. 

"After spending time with my friends..." Mason gestured to Nate and Maddy as he picked them both up and looked at them with a soft smile. "I've started to learn what they say by the heart."

"Besides that, you heard what the badge said." Jack looked at Fluttershy with a serious look as he crossed his arms and said "You gave him some advice and it's time you follow it."

"Yeah, what good to give others advice if you don't take it yourself?" Kodi added.

"Exactly Flutters. That's why you gotta believe in yourself and not wrapped yourself in a veil of traumatic experiences of flying like Nicole said." I smiled over her before hugging her tight and said "No matter what, we'll do this together in order to help perfect your speed."

Fluttershy hugged me back before letting out a confident smile and said "You're right, my friends. I shouldn't give up."

"Now that's the spirit!" I chuckled.

"You can do it Fluttershy!" Kodi smirked. Soon, Fluttershy got out of my arms and flew through the tree we were underneath as we got up and saw her way at the top as she exclaimed "I will get my confidence up and show everypony that I am a good flyer! A great flyer!"

All the critters let out cries in agreement while the rest of us looked at each other with smiles on our faces.

"Well then..." Mason crossed his arms with a small smile on his face. "Let's get to work then, shall we?"

"One step ahead of you there, bro." Jack grinned as I looked at the guys with a soft smile. Yeah, we can totally do this...for her.

And soon, we began helping Fluttershy onto conquering her fear of flying and to increase her wing power. With our help and support, along with her woodland critter friends, we'll make her from being shy and timid to strong-willed and brave!...Just not as she was from when she took one of Iron Will's seminars.

Soon, we were over by the riverside as Fluttershy was stretching her legs, and to top it off, she was wearing some headbands to make herself look like she's training. |

"Are you ready Flutters?" I asked with a smile.

She gave me a serious yet determined smile and replied "Ready!"

With that, training began as she tried to fly through the air as animals, Nate, Maddy, and Kodiak were seen below her as they held masks based off of the ponies we've seen over by Ponyville. We're trying to boost her confidence and hopefully conquer her fear of stage fright. Unfortunately, the moment she saw the masked animals, she widened her eyes and covered her eyes in fear, but not before crashing straight into a tree, which caused us all to wince before seeing her get stuck in the root of the tree. She glances back at us before covering her eyes, feeling embarrassed that she got herself stuck.

"...I'll go help her." Jack scoffed, walking over and tried to help out.

"This might take a while." I muttered loudly, which the other animals, Kodi, and Mason nodded in agreement.

We moved towards doing push-ups as Mason, Jack, Fluttershy, and I were doing our best in hopes of boosting Fluttershy's confidence. Well Fluttershy got it easy what with using her wings instead of hooves. I guess that's how Pegasi do push-ups, am I right?
Although, it was a bit difficult upon doing these push-ups. Not just because it was too hard, but the animals, including Kodiak, were on our backs. 

"Don't give up Flutters! You can do it!" Kodi cheered while I gave him a tired and deadpanned look because he was mainly on my back and Fluttershy was next to him. 

"Seriously?" I asked incredulously. Dang it, why is it that they get the smaller animals, but I'm stuck here with him. No offense but I think I like him back when he was a pup. However, the animals placed back their masks on, frightening Fluttershy as she got out of her push-up position, causing the animals to face-palm. Hang in there Fluttershy, you can do it!

The next exercising event was a tug-of-war event as Fluttershy was doing this with a....butterfly. Shouldn't be too hard right?

"Ha, this is probably gonna be a piece of cake." Jack grinned as Fluttershy tried her best to tug the rope from the butterfly, but the animals in front of her pulled back on their masks, frightening Fluttershy as she lost all of her strength and fell straight into the mud with a disappointed look on her face while the rest of us sighed heavily and face-palmed.

"Or not..."

And after a few push-up sessions, sit-ups sessions, stretching out our arms and legs, Fluttershy flew around the trees with a serious yet nervous look on her face, and soon she passed by us, including the animals donning their ponies mask. I let out a smile in approval of her not panicking upon seeing them. She's getting the hang of it at least.

She started doing the push-ups again, but she glances towards us with a frightful look as she was doing her push-ups on a pool of her own tears. I'm not sure if its a pool made from her tears of joy or sad. 

Soon, we were back with the tug-of-war and this time, she started to get better on pulling that rope from those two butterflies. However, she began struggling again and was pulled by them, which gave us incredulous looks. I understand that Fluttershy might not be the strongest pony, but this is just ridiculous.

Soon after, she began improving herself as she breeze right through us with a determined look, and she wasn't even fazed or frightened upon seeing the animals and I looking straight at her. That gotten me a smile on my face. 

She even managed to keep doing her push-ups more faster with us, and I've been improving too...okay, maybe not but I suck at doing push-ups, alright? I soon noticed Fluttershy about to tear up, but one look from my face along with a smile gave her a boost of confidence as she sucked that tear right back up like it was nothing.

"Whoa..." Me and Kodi muttered in surprise. That's BA right there. She even managed to pull a whole flock of butterflies with tug-of-war. She looks back at the tree out of worried but saw that the butterflies were still okay, bringing a smile on her face.

"Whoa! You did it Flutters!" I called out with a bright grin on my face.

"Ha! Guess that was quicker than I thought!" Jack laughed.

"Now you're ready for the big test!" Kodi added before asking "But are you sure you're ready?"

Fluttershy smiled towards us before flying through a field of dandelions, and flew straight into the air with the sun shining all over her body as she yelled "I was born ready!"

Me and the others looked at each other with smiles, happy to finally see Fluttershy finally have the confidence to show the others that she isn't weak! Now if only we could do that for Jamie, oh well...guess that'll be another time for when we do another fast training session.

"Alright..." I walked towards to Fluttershy as she flown back down to the ground as I gave her a determined smile and exclaimed "Let's go back to the park and show them all!"

"Yeah!" Fluttershy cheered before tightly hugging me, catching me by surprise before I hugged her back. Soon after ten seconds of hugging each other, we both let go of each other with blushes on our faces and trying our best to ignore the laughter and happy sighs from the animal critters, Jack, Kodiak, Nate, and Maddy. Mason held a small smirk on his face while Angel on the other hand...well let's just say that he wasn't amused that Fluttershy is showering me with all of her love and kind heart. Well I didn't mean it...even in front of an animal like you.



Later
All right, now with Fluttershy feeling more confident than ever, we can finally help her participate in the wind-powered tornado Rainbow is trying to make everyone do. Soon, we arrived back to the practice meet as one of the Pegasi ponies were just finishing up their practice. 

"Ahh, excellent speed." Jamie copied some notes down on his journal before muttering "With this much speed, I think Cloudsdale might have a chance on transporting the water supply by forming a tornado."

"That I agree too Jamie." Twilight smiled, earning a blush from Jamie. As we walked by with a confident Fluttershy, I saw Kaede along with Rantaro and Nicole as they were busy minding their own business, not interested onto seeing the Pegasi practicing and testing their wing power as Rantaro was leaning against the tree with Gizmo by his side as he was looking over his phone while Nicole was on her iPad doing...something. 

"Yo!" Jack called, gaining some of the others' attention.

"Oh hey you guys!" Kaede greeted with a smile. "I was wondering where you've guys been."

"It's a long story." I rubbed my head bashfully with a sheepish grin before saying "But we're here for Fluttershy."

"Oh, so she's gonna do it?" I nodded before gazing at Rantaro and Nicole, who were minding their own businesses quietly. "So they came along for the ride?"

"Yeah, apparently she was seen over by Sugarcube Corner and made some ponies feel surprise by her speaking before they could get the chance." Kaede rubbed her head with a sweat-drop while I raised a brow at that. Well...why am I surprised by this point? She can literally know what we're gonna say. "Rantaro saw us by and forcefully came with us back here to the track to watch the other Pegasi trained themselves."

"Does Twilight know that they're here or even introduce herself to Nicole?" Mason asked curiously.

"She has and Twilight and Spike were quite baffled by how she knew what they were gonna say and found out about the anemometer." Kaede chuckled. "I think some ponies were starting to feel slightly concerned for her."


To be honest, I can't blame them to feel concerned for her like that. Soon, Mason's pet squirrels jumped out of Mason's scarf and landed onto Jamie's head, causing him to flinch in fear. 

"W-what?" Jamie asked as the two squirrels started chattering, which confused him, Twilight, and Spike.

"Umm...what are they saying?" Spike asked.

Twilight gave him a deadpanned look before saying "Do we look like we speak squirrel?"

Ha ha...Powerpuff girls reference there. 

"They're saying that she's ready." Mason answered, much to their confusion.

"S-she?" Jamie questioned until they saw Fluttershy flying over with a serious and determined look on her face before she landed on the starting line as the rest of us watched over with exciting, amused, and happy grins on our faces.

"Go on Flutters! You can do it!" I yelled.

"Don't back down!" Kodi added, causing the others to let out cheers while Fluttershy turned to me with a nod and smile before she flapped her wings rapidly and began speeding up and blasting through the track and went past us, along with the anemometer. We all let out cheers while Rantaro and Nicole went silent as Fluttershy flew back and looked at the anemometer.

"That was downright awesome!" Kodi exclaimed. "Now I bet Fluttershy is 5 times faster than before!"

"You can say that again." I nodded in agreement.

"W-what?!" Huh? What's wrong with Fluttershy? I mean, she now sounds upset than before. "2.3? 2.3?! That has to be some kind of mistake! I worked so hard!"

"What?!" I exclaimed in shock. "2.3?!" 

But she trained so hard all afternoon, so how?!

"You gotta be crapping me right now." Jack groaned.

"You can't be serious." Mason face-palmed himself.

"Well don't worry Fluttershy, at least you gave it your all, right?" Kaede chuckled nervously.

"K-Kaede has a point. That's a huge improvement from your previous wing power level." Jamie agreed with a soft smile.

"Yeah! You did awesome Fluttershy." Rainbow nudged her with a grin but not before we saw tears flowing in Fluttershy's eyes.

"No, I didn't. I thought I'd gotten over my nerves, but they still got the best of me! There's no way I'll fly with 10.0 wing power tomorrow!"

Rainbow rolled her eyes and replied "So you won't fly with 10.0 wing power. Every bit counts!"

"How would you feel if everypony else was flying with 10.0 wing power and you were flying with 2.5?!" Fluttershy retorted tearfully.

"Actually, it was only 2.3 and-OW!" Jack whacked Spike upside the head with an angry glare, which caused Spike to chuckle nervously with a sheepish grin.

"You know, she has a point." Rantaro shrugged, earning glares from the others while I ignored Rantaro's comment and looked at Fluttershy with a worried look. Oh Fluttershy...

"It is true." Nicole agreed, looking over at her iPad. "While you all may think it's no big deal...it is. Flying with a wing power of 2.3 and creating a tornado of 10.0 is extremely dangerous, even for someone like her for example."

"Well, uh...I'd feel...um..." Rainbow Dash was at loss for words until Nicole "Don't or else you'll make the problem worse than before for her."

"Well still..." Twilight turned to the new human woman with a slightly worried look. "I know that we may have met but-"

"Are you even sure that she could do it? Am I right?" Nicole stated, startling Twilight upon hearing what she was about to say.

"W-well...okay that's what I was gonna say." Twilight chuckled nervously before mumbling "Though I don't know how in Equestria does she does that?"

"What I'm stating..." She takes off her glasses and wipes them with a tissue from her pocket. "Is that Ms. Fluttershy is feeling embarrassed, upset, and irritated that she could've gotten a better level on her wing power, but that just increased by the percentage of 1.8."

"Now hold on a minute!" Rainbow exclaimed. "I'm sure with more practice, she'll-"

"No Rainbow Dash, it won't!" We all turned to Fluttershy as she held a depressed and upset look on her face as she cried out "It's humiliating! Embarrassing! That's what you all think of me!"

"W-what? No Flutters, that's not true!" I exclaimed with a worried look. 

"No Ren, it's the truth!" She cried before turning to Dash and said "I'm sorry Rainbow Dahs, but I just can't do it!"

With that, she began running away while the rest of us felt guilty and worried that she's acting up again. And that was such a good improvement for her skills, and now she's finally embarrassed by it.

"It's okay, Rainbow Dash, you've still got plenty of wing power for your tornado. You'll be able to lift tons of water up to Cloudsdale!" 

"Are you serious about that?" Rantaro asked deadpanned. "You sure are known for ruining the moment, Spike."

"What?! I'm just saying!" Spike exclaimed angrily. However, Rainbow gazes back at where Fluttershy was last seen before letting out a heavy sigh and muttered "If only there was a way to lift Fluttershy out of the dumps."

Me too Rainbow...me too...

"Damn, so much for all of that damn training." Jack sighed before scratching his head bashfully. "So now what?"

I looked down on the ground with a sad look, wondering what to do now. Fluttershy is so heartbroken and I want to help out...but I just don't know if she even wants to see my face because she must've thought that I was disappointed in her. The only thing that I'm disappointing in...is myself because I'm sitting around doing nothing!

"Then go to her Mr. Loodan." Huh? I looked over to Nicole as she looked at me with a soft smile. "It's not easy for people to be embarrassed and humiliated on bad times such as this, but if people like you can help out others in bad times, then you can give them the hope they deserve."

"Nicole..." I muttered in surprise as she began taking her leave, allowing some ponies to move out of her way until she looks back at me and said "Well...are you coming or not?"

"O-oh! Thanks Nikki!" I thanked, causing her to blink a few times before she began taking her leave with me following after her.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Kodi yelled, chasing after me and Nicole. I bid the others farewell as we walked back towards Fluttershy's cottage, hoping that we could talk...again.



Later
"Flutters? Flutters!" Still no answer. We were in front of her cottage as I kept banging on the door, but no luck. She could possibly be around the back.

"Alright, let's go check it out." I turned to Nicole with a surprised look and exclaimed "Y-you heard that?!"

"That look on your face says it all. You're quite an open book..." Nicole answered before walking around the back with me and Kodi following after her.

"But are we even sure she could possibly be back here?" Kodi asked. Before any of us could answer his question, we heard some moaning as we looked over by and saw Fluttershy moaning by the tree. "Oh...never mind."

"Flutters?" I called, gaining her attention as she glances towards us as she still has some tears falling from her cheeks. Just seeing her like this makes my heart ache so bad.

"Hi...." Fluttershy whimpered as we walked over to her as I came over and bend down to her with a sad smile and asked "So how are you feeling?"

"I-I'm fine...what am I saying? I'm horrible! Humiliated! Embarrassed!" Fluttershy cried out before placing her face on the tree, covering it with her hooves. 

"I didn't think it was bad. I'm sure that what you did back there was a great improvement." I said with a smile. "Maybe if we keep practicing, surely you'll have a wing power of 10.0!"

"Not possible." Nicole said. "Apparently, I've discovered from Ms. Twilight stated that the event you speak of is being held tomorrow morning, so I'm afraid that you won't have time to do that."

"I don't know, Fluttershy was doing amazingly and increased her wing power just earlier by the afternoon." Kodi pointed out. 

"Well even so, I say that it's not gonna help her now." Nicole stated before glancing towards me and Fluttershy. "Why not we discuss this indoors?"

"Well that sounds like the right idea." I nodded with a hopeful smile before turning to Fluttershy and asked "What do you say Flutters?"

Fluttershy raised her head and let out a few whimpers before nodding and mumbling "Y-yes..."

"Come along..." Nicole soon started walking inside of Fluttershy's cottage while the rest of us looked at each other and wonder what Nicole want us to talk about. I mean, she is a psychologist so maybe she might help give us some therapy or whatnot. So maybe she could help?

"Room for one more?" Huh? We looked over to see Rantaro walking by with a nonchalant look on her face while the rest of us felt confused of his appearance.

"What are you doing here?" Kodi asked with a raised brow.

"Just wanted to keep an eye out for old Nikki here." Rantaro answered. "That's all you need to know."

I raised a brow at Rantaro because I know for sure that can't be the only reason why he came here, right? I'm sure there's another reason why he's here.

"....Alright you may come. You're only here for Miss Fluttershy and Mr. Loodan's relationship, correct?" Nicole guessed, furrowing her brows while Rantaro let out a snicker.

"Way to go for spoiling that." Huh? He's here because of me and Fluttershy's relationship? Then...what reason would that be? I never thought he would think about anyone else but himself because he always distance himself from others and doesn't like his time to be wasted.



Later
Soon after Nicole asked us to meet up inside of Fluttershy's cottage, we were seen sitting down on the sofa while Rantaro was leaning against the wall, Nicole was doing something on her iPad while she sat down on a recliner and Kodiak and Gizmo were busy having some sort of conversation. We all remained silent until Nicole took her gaze off her iPad and stared at us.

"...So Ms. Fluttershy, could you tell me about what happened to Flight Camp?" Nicole questioned. "I may know that you were bullied, but I wished to learn it from your perspective."

Fluttershy felt nervous about that but I gave her a comforting smile and said "Hey, don't feel bad Fluttershy. I'm right here for ya."

Fluttershy gave me a soft smile before turning to Nicole and began telling her story to her.

"My experience back at Flight Camp was...you may say, awful. Back when I was a filly, I was always known for not being more 'faster' than the others."

"In other words, you haven't been practicing much on flying in the air like Ms. Rainbow Dash and the other Pegasi, correct?" Nicole deduced, which Fluttershy nodded.

"Yes...I tried so hard to fly and get better at it, but no matter how much of a crowd I see, I grew panicky and accidentally get myself into trouble, hurting myself and making the others either upset or laugh at me for my clumsiness." Fluttershy sniffled, prompting me to pat her on the back as she looked back at me with a soft smile.

"I see....it was thanks to that experience you've gained this kind of fear of stage fright, correct?" Nicole questioned, which Fluttershy nodded. "I understand because you've been facing performance anxiety."

"Performance anxiety?" Fluttershy questioned.

"She means being afraid to show off your talents in front of a crowd, obviously." Rantaro stated harshly, glancing towards her.

"Oh...right." Hey! You don't be so harsh, dude.

"It's because of the traumatic experience that you've gained a phobia of flying five feet into the air, but I have a feeling that Ms. Rainbow Dash helped you through it. While you may not have done too well through Flight Camp, I have a feeling that you've find a good talent of being an animal caretaker/breeder here in Ponyville." Nicole made a soft smile towards me and Fluttershy. "While you may be afraid, you need to unveil the chains of your fears out of you. If you just do it, things will turn out okay."

Where have I heard that line somewhere?

"Yeah, take me for example." I chuckled with a smile, earning confusion from Fluttershy herself. "I've been bullied many times back at elementary school, but I kept a positive vibe and never held a grudge at them because I understand why they love to bully due to parental/family issues. I've been quite a good person towards others and gained a few friends. While I may not have the same problem as you, I understand about your stage fright very deeply and I want to help you do it. Because...I know that you can conquer it!"

"Y-you really think so, Ren?" Fluttershy asked, startled a bit.

"Of course! I mean, you just have to believe in yourself!" I said with a smile.

"Yeah! Nice speech Ren!" Kodi barked with a smile on his face while I rubbed my head bashfully with a small blush.

"He has a point. You can't be a coward and stay on the ground for your whole life." Rantaro added, picking his ear a bit. "You're a Pegasus, aren't ya? You should fly around and go high to the skies or some crap. Stop being a wimp and woman up."

"Woman...up?" Nicole and Fluttershy asked in unison.

"Yeah, stop feeling moody, get to it. You're time is just gonna be wasted if you don't do it." Rantaro stated.

"...Well..." Fluttershy looked at the ground for a while before letting out a smile. "I guess I could try again...Well I'll try my best at least."

"That's the spirit Flutters!" I cheered loudly with a big smile on my face. "I'll be there, supporting you to the end!"

"T-thank you Ren!" She gave me a tight hug before kissing me on the forehead, causing me to blush and chuckled nervously while Nicole stared at us for a while and said "You two are meant for each other."

"Huh?" We both asked.

"While it does seemed strange that it's a human and an anthropomorphic pony with wings on each side of her hip, I guess you may call it an 'inter-species love'." Nicole adjusted her glasses with a soft smile. "I guess...both of you can try to figure out how to surpass and unlocked yourselves from the chain wrapped around in your heart, Ms. Fluttershy."

"R-really? You-"

"Really think I can do it? Is that you were gonna say?" Nicole questioned, startling Fluttershy before she let out a hesitant nod. "Yes...yes you will...I think."

"'You think'?" Rantaro asked incredulous.

"Call it a hunch..." Nicole shrugged a little before glancing away and got up from her seat before walking out of the cottage, giving us a small wave before taking her leave. 

"Well...she was nice." Fluttershy commented.

"Whatever...I say that she's just a social outcast kind of a dweeb." Rantaro scoffed. 

"Hey, be nice Rantaro." I said with a soft smile while he rolled his eyes and began taking his leave.

"Whatever, I'm out of here. See ya later...I'm out to share some more info for ponies to hear." That is...if they could possibly pay your ludicrous prices. "See ya never...come on Gizmo, let's go."

Gizmo jumped onto his right shoulder as the two of them took their leave out of the cottage while Fluttershy, Kodiak, and I looked at each other with hopeful smiles.

"You know, I have this feeling that you are gonna try your best tomorrow on showing the others that you can do it, Fluttershy." I encouraged with a smile, which made Fluttershy smiled happily.

"Thank you Ren and thanks for the support." Fluttershy chuckled.

"Yeah, we'll be rooting for you." Kodi jumped onto the sofa before licking her face, causing her to chuckle as she petted him on the head and kissing him on the nose.  

"You too Kodiak." Fluttershy thanked. "I'll try my best...hopefully."

"Don't say that. Try to stay optimistic." I smiled softly, which made Fluttershy chuckle as she replied "Well maybe I can't be that optimistic like you, but maybe I could try at least."

"Yeah..." I nodded with a smile as the two of us agreed that go over to the event early in the morning. Soon, we went silent, making the things  "Well....I should get going."

"O-Oh...r-right..." Fluttershy smiled softly, forming a large blush on her face. "W-we'll meet tomorrow morning....b-bye Ren...Kodiak..."

"Right...bye Flutters." I said as me and Kodiak were about to leave until I stopped myself and looks back at Fluttershy with a soft smile and nodded, gesturing her that I wish her good luck tomorrow and give it your best as the two of us left the cottage. Soon after as the two of us were walking by and headed back home as Kodiak looked at me with a confused look and asked "What was that all about?"

"O-oh! I was just wishing Fluttershy good luck because..." I scratched my head bashfully with a grin. "I have this nagging feeling that she's gonna do it. Trust me, that she'll do it."

"Well...can't blame ya. I want to see Fluttershy smiling again." Kodi grinned. "I just hope she can do it."

I let out a nod before looking at the blue skies before muttering "Me too Kodi...me too..."

Fluttershy...I'm counting on you on proving those guys and like I promise, I'll be there. I promise.



The Next Day
Today was the day after the practiced meet, and we woke up very early since we've been told that the event was taking place by 6:00  A.M. in the morning. The day has already been over with and so we headed back home to mind our own businesses. So anyway, me and the others were just busy finishing breakfast already as the rest of us were taking our leave and heading over to the end of town to see the Pegasi ponies about to perform.

"I'm so excited!" Carrie cheered, holding onto her brother's hands with a cheery smile. "I can't wait to see it!"

"I know right?" Kaede smiled. "Rainbow Dash picked out many different Pegasi ponies to compete in the water reservoir."

"Ha! Maybe Skittles might have a chance beaten that damn record!" Jack grinned toothily.

"That'll be an amazing sight." I chuckled with a smile before turning to Nicole and Rantaro. "Oh, and thank you guys for helping out Fluttershy."

"Just doing my job..." Nicole stated, looking over her iPad.

"Why thank you." Rantaro snickered.

"And don't worry, he really means it." Rantaro gave Nicole an annoyed glance while the rest of us let out some chuckles.

"Well either way, it's a good thing that I made some snacks while we watch the event." Mason smiled, carrying a basket filled with some delicious croquettes, sandwiches, and water bottles. "Though it would be best if we stayed behind a hill and watched the event unfold. It is quite dangerous to get close to a tornado."

"Good point. Tornadoes are extremely dangerous based upon on the five categories..." Nicole agreed, looking over her iPad. "It's probably best not to get involved and just stay about 10 feet and watch it unfold."

"Well alright then." I chuckled before rubbing my head bashfully. "Though I wish we could watch it up close."

"Yeah, then it would be more exciting." Kodi pouted.

"Would you get caught up in a dangerous storm that could suck you up and get yourself killed?" Nicole questioned, causing me and Kodi to look at each other sheepishly, realizing that she has a point. 

"Yeah, though I'm kinda jealous Jamie is gonna be there earlier than us." Kaede admitted, rubbing her cheek bashfully with a sheepish grin. "Along with staying there as well."

"Well Jamie is helping Twilight out on the water reservoir event, that's all." Mason replied.

"Lucky nerd of a coward." Jack rolled his eyes.

"Speaking about cowards..." Rantaro looked over at his phone before asking "Where's that yellow Pegasus?"

Oh yeah, I forgot about her. Maybe she's at the event already before us?

"Hello everypony...." I looked back along with the others to see Fluttershy walking by with a soft yet nervous smile and she was accompanied with a few of her animal friends, mainly a rabbit, squirrel, a duck and its duckling. "Am I late or too early?"

"Oh hey Flutters." I greeted with a smile. "And don't worry, you just arrived to the perfect moment for the event."

"Oh thank you Ren." Fluttershy giggled.

"I'm surprise that you even want to show up." Jack grunted, causing Fluttershy to flinch while the rest of us, excluding Nicole at the moment, gave him a look. "What? I'm just saying."

"Well besides that..." I turned to Fluttershy with a soft smile. "I'm really glad that you've finally decided to show up Flutters."

Fluttershy blushed and giggled a bit while everyone else chuckled at the scene. 

"So what's up with the animals?" Rantaro questioned. "Seems like a waste to just bring them here."

The four animals growled angrily at him while Fluttershy shushed them softly, prompting them to calm down.

"Oh, they insisted to come and cheer me up if we ever have the chance to help out Rainbow Dash and the others on creating that tornado." Fluttershy explained.

"Ahh, that's so cute." Carrie giggled before petting the little duckling with a bright grin. The little duckling felt appreciated by that before letting out a quack, causing the rest of us to chuckle.

"We're very proud of you Fluttershy." Kaede grinned.

"Indeed. We are quite happy that you are willing to help your friend out." Mason nodded in agreement, causing Fluttershy to blush in embarrassment from all the praise.

"N-no need. I just don't want Rainbow Dash to feel depressed because I'm not here." Fluttershy replied with a soft smile. "She needs every Pegasi for the job in order to create a tornado powerful enough to send water directly towards Cloudsdale."

"Well you don't have to worry about that." Nicole insisted. "Besides, I don't think it's possible to create a powerful tornado anyway."

"Huh? Why do you say that Nicole?" Kaede asked in confusion.

"Because I found out yesterday during the practice meet that several of them are sick with a disease." We all widened our eyes in shock upon hearing that as we yelled "What?!"

"Yes, I inspected every one of those ponies who intended the meeting and notice that several showed signs of some sort of disease founded here in Equestria, so if I'm right, I say that several of them are hospitalized by now."

"A-are you frigging serious right now?!" Jack exclaimed. "Why the hell are you telling us this now?!"

"Because you never asked..." Nicole replied.

"Are you kidding me?" Rantaro face-palmed while the rest of us sweat-dropped with deadpanned looks. She can't be serious right now, right? Although, this is bad considering what Nicole deduced! We have to hurry and warn the others before it's too late!

Suddenly, we begin to feel a rush of wind blowing through us as Kaede commented "Whoa, it sure is getting windy today."

"Yeah, so suddenly as well." Kodi agreed. Strange, since when did it get so windy? In the beginning of Spring as well?

"Wait...look!" Mason pointed over behind us as we saw a giant fan blowing very fast, nearly knocking us out.

"What the hell is that?!" Jack exclaimed.

"It's a giant fan, what do you think?!" Rantaro snorted, placing his hand on his fedora in hopes of not letting it be blown away.

"No, that's the anemometer!" Fluttershy exclaimed. "It must be starting already!"

"Huh? So suddenly?!" Kodi exclaimed with a low growl.

"Goddamn, this wind sure is strong!" Jack commented as we tried our best to hold our ground.

"I-I have to get there..." Fluttershy soon started slowly descending towards the fan while I looked back with a worried look. If she tries to go directly towards the tornado, she's gonna get herself killed! 

"Wait!" I called, gaining her attention. "I'm coming too!"

"What?!" The others, except Nicole, exclaimed in shock.

"Trust me, I'll be alright!" I replied before turning to Kodi and said "And stay with Kodi, I don't want you to get hurt if something happened to me."

"You got it!" Kodi nodded in agreement. I smiled happily at him before turning to Fluttershy and said "Let me come with you Fluttershy! Just to keep you safe!"

"O-Okay!" Fluttershy shouted back and everyone yelled, telling me to come back but I ignored them as we slowly took our steps and somehow managed to get past the wind, finding a giant anemometer machine with Twilight, Jamie, and Spike holding onto it with all their might.

"W-w-why was it a good idea to stay right here in this spot?!" Jamie screamed.

"We have to stay here in order to observe how much power they're making for the tornado!" Twilight yelled back.

"Twilight!" Fluttershy and I yelled out, gaining their attention as they glanced towards us with surprised looks.

"You guys?! What are you all doing here?!" Twilight yelled. 

"We came here to watch the event but we didn't knew that it was gonna be that windy!" I yelled.

"I figured...that I could try again by going into that...tornado to help out Rainbow Dash..." Fluttershy shouted.

"She could sure use it, considering that eight Pegasi are infected with a disease called Feather Flu!" Jamie yelled.

"We know! Nicole told us just now!" I yelled back, much to their shock.

"What?!" Twilight exclaimed.

"It's a long story, but now's not the time!" I yelled before me and Fluttershy held on the machine while we gaze at the giant tornado, seeing it spin around and around as it began making its way towards the skies. Looks like it's still going and they're trying to bring the water into the skies. That's the whole point of it, right?

As the tornado kept going, I saw a lot of ponies were being blasted straight out of the tornado. Holy cow! Is forming a tornado that hard?! Wait, what am I saying? It has to be that hard, right? Sooner or later, the tornado immediately collapsed with all the Pegasi being blasted out of the way, making the wind levels die down and Rainbow Dash crashed straight into a tree, her eyes somehow popped out on the other side. Okay, that's quite creepy.

"Are you okay Dash?" I asked in worried. Rainbow Dash tried to get herself out of the log as she muttered "I'm fine!"

"Oh, you were so close to the eight hundred wing power minimum." Jamie stated, looking over at the anemometer. "I-I'm so sorry, Rainbow Dash."

Rainbow Dash managed to get herself out of the tree before making a serious and determined look before exclaiming "We've got to try again!"

"But you've pushed your crew to their limit already!" Twilight reminded him before pulling her back using her tail as she pointed over with a stern look on her face. We looked over to see the other Pegasi ponies were getting out of the water and had exhausted looks on their faces. "If you break apart again, somepony could get hurt! You should quit, it's not safe!"

Rainbow looked at her with shocked and felt guilty while I had a worried look until something inside of me forced me out to say something.

"No! She has to!" I retorted, surprising the others as I looked at Rainbow Dash with a serious look and continued "Are you just gonna give up?! Well you can't because you can't do this for the record, but you have to do this for Cloudsdale! For these guys! For all of Equestria! You need to keep coming and won't give up till the end!"

"R-Ren!" Twilight scolded.

"No..." Rainbow held a serious look as she swatted Twilight's hoof away. "Ren's right! One more time! I've gotta know we gave it our all! If I'm going down, I'm going down flying!" She turned to the other Pegasi and exclaimed "Come on, ponies, let's make this happen!"

That gotten the crowd yelling out in agreement before we heard one of the ponies, which I recognized from that white bulky pony yelling out a 'YEAH!' from the crowd. With that, I looked over to see Spike blowing into a big horn as the rest of the remaining Pegasi ponies began spinning around and around, making the water swirl around and around until they formed it into a tornado.

"Whoa..." I said in awe with slightly widened eyes. Where's a camera when you need it.

"Okay, it's starting up again..." Jamie pointed out, seeing the anemometer starting up again as the arrow on it started to go up slowly. "One hundred wing power!...Two hundred!...Five hundred!"

Soon, the tornado kept getting bigger and bigger, but then I noticed that it was starting to get out of control.

"Seven hundred! Seven hundred and fifty wing power!" Jamie continued to read the anemometer while he held tight onto it. While me and Spike held onto the machine, I was crushed underneath Fluttershy as I felt dizzy before shaking my head, regaining consciousness. 

"Oh! Sorry Ren!" Fluttershy apologized. I gave her a reassuring smile and replied "Don't worry, it's okay Flutters."

"AH!" Spike gasped. "They fell apart after this!"

We looked back and saw that he had a point since the tornado was starting to get out of hand with all this pressure they're facing.

"Oh, I'm too nervous to look!" Fluttershy covered her eyes in fear while her animal buddies hid behind the anemometer in fear.

"Seventy ninety five! We are so close!" Jamie stated with a worried look. "A-at this rate, they're never gonna get that water to Cloudsdale!"

I furrowed my brows in thought, wondering what to do before looking at Fluttershy, making me realize something. There is one way to solve this...

"Fluttershy!" I shouted, gaining her attention. "You have to go into that tornado!"

"W-w-w-what?!" Fluttershy stuttered in shock. "I can't! It wouldn't make a difference!"

"You can make a difference!" I retorted.

"My measly 2.3 wing power is still too little!" Fluttershy cried.

"it's sticking at seventy ninety five! I don't know if they've got any more in them!" Jamie called, much to my worried and shock. I looked at Fluttershy with an encouraging look and said "Fluttershy, you have to do this...for them!"

"B-but even so...I can't. I-I'm just a failure!" Fluttershy cried until I hugged her tight and said "Then we'll do this...together."

"What?" Fluttershy asked in confusion. I soon got up and took out the capsule out of my pockets before pressing on the button and throwing it into the air, releasing my hover board as I hopped on while the others widened their eyes in shock upon realizing what I was about to do.

"Ren! Are you crazy?!" Twilight exclaimed. "There's no way you can try and form a tornado at this size! Humans can't even control weather like you said!"

"Well I have to do something! No way am I gonna let them fail again!" I retorted. 

"Ren wait!" Fluttershy stopped me. "You can't do this alone! Please, don't do this!"

"You're right, I can't alone but together we can!" I smiled, much to her surprise. "Fluttershy, you can do this. Do it for Equestria! Do it for Rainbow Dash! Do it for yourself!"

Fluttershy looked at me with an unsure look before gulping in fear. I gave her a soft smile before leaning forward and kissing her on the lips, much to her and the other's shock and surprise. Ten seconds later, we finished up our kiss as she looked at me with her face all red.

"O-okay...let's do it...for them." Fluttershy smiled as I nodded before she started flapping her wings as the two of us were about fly straight into the tornado until Twilight stopped us. She gave the both of us stern looks before giving us two goggles, one was an old fashion brown goggles and the other was a Astra Depot Steampunk goggles with clear lens. We both looked at her in surprise as she gave us a pleading look.

"Just be careful out there you two." Twilight said in concern, which the two of us looked at each other before smiling and grabbing onto each goggles as I put on the Astra Depot Steampunk Clear Lens Goggles while Fluttershy put on the brown one. We both let out nods as Fluttershy began flapping her wings rapidly before she looked back at her animal friends, who gave her encouraging looks as well as pleading looks to me as they wanted to make sure that nothing happened to her, which I nodded.

With that, the both of us flew straight into the tornado and holy cow it looked so awesome in here! I saw many different Pegasus's flying around in circles while they tried to carry the water towards the skies.

I stayed in a steady pace before noticing Fluttershy struggling to stay still till I grabbed her hoof and managed to let her fly next to me. 

"You okay?" I asked in concern.

"Y-yeah...I think so." Fluttershy nodded before smiling. "Now come on! Let's go!"

"Right!" I nodded before we began increasing our speed, bumping into Rainbow Dash.

"Hey! You made it Fluttershy!" Rainbow said with a smile before gazing upon me with a surprised look. "And you too Ren?!"

"Well I figured that if Fluttershy gonna do it, then we gotta do this together!" I replied with a confident smile, which made Rainbow make a smirk towards us.

"Well it would makes sense considering she's your special somepony." Rainbow replied, causing the both of us to blush and pout at that. "But anyway, I guess it's alright with you! The more the merrier, right?"

"Right!" Me and Fluttershy nodded in unison until I said "I may not have the ability to control the weather like this for example, but I can always still help!" 

Rainbow formed a grin at me before winking as we began pulling ourselves into the tornado, getting all the water swirling around to the top. I don't know how long we've been through or if time was starting to get slow, but I noticed many Pegasus ponies were getting past us, much to our confusion.

"Uh oh, looks like we need to increase our speed some more." I said to Fluttershy, which made her hesitant before letting out a gulp as she nodded and tried to flap harder, but was struggling.

With that, she let out a heavy sigh before I noticed her pupils were shrinking. Oh no...she's hesitating...I can't let her do this! Not now!

"Fluttershy! Don't give in to your fear! Give in to hope! Not lose hope now!" I yelled, snapping her out of her traumatized state. "You can do it! You can't fall to despair now! Rainbow Dash believes in you! Twilight believes in you! Jamie and Spike believes in you! Angel and your other animal buddies believes in you! The others believes in you! I believe in you!"

Fluttershy looked at me in shock before forming a determined look and said "You're right...I can't fall back! I need to keep going and not let my fears take me down! I'll do it for you and for everypony else!"

With that, she began flapping her wings rapidly and blasted off, causing me to smile happily before pursuing her, passing by many ponies as they had impressed looks on their faces.

"What was that?"

"I think it was Ren Loodan and Fluttershy!"

"I heard that those two were special someponies!"

"Whoa, that's quite weird!"

"Whoa, so that's what the power of love looks like!"

Sooner or later, we began swirling around faster and faster until the water was blasted right out of the tornado and straight into Cloudsdale, sucking all of the lake's water. With every bit of the water gone, we finally accomplished the impossible. Soon, we heard a loud horn blowing which was probably Spike blowing into that long horn again and on cue, everypony stopped themselves but me and Fluttershy still kept flying around and around too fast.

"Ahh...I'm getting too dizzy..." I groaned, my eyes swirling around in a dizzy state.

"Me...too...." Fluttershy moaned until the both of us were on clouds. Well...only Fluttershy since she's a Pegasus as I went through the cloud and fell down on the ground as my board deactivated and landed on the ground.

"Whuh, what? Did we do it?" I asked myself, which Rainbow Dash nodded with an eager smile and replied "Yeah, we did it! You two did it!"

She flew down with Fluttershy in tow and hugged the both of us, causing us to sigh happily and smiled in relief.

"Great job, Fluttershy, Ren, that was awesome!" One of the Pegasi complimented. The other Pegasi murmured in agreement while they all were impressed that some human like me was keeping up with them, even I was impressed with myself to do something like that.

"Yeah, we couldn't have done it without you two." I soon stood up and shook my head before I replied "No, it wasn't just the two of us. It's Fluttershy you all should thank because she did it with all her might to get that water straight to Cloudsdale. She's the real hero!"

Fluttershy smiled happily towards me while the crowd started to agree on that.

"Woo!" Huh? I looked over to see a pony wearing a blue lightning bolt-like costume flying towards Rainbow Dash with a smirk on her face. "Nice job, Rainbow Dash. You may not have set a new record, but you showed a lot of guts."

Rainbow smiled at her before replying "Thanks, but if you wanna talk guts, then like Ren said, you've gotta give it to our number one flyer, Fluttershy! Let's hear it for Fluttershy!"

"Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Fluttershy can really fly!" All of the Pegasi cheered while I stood there with a proud look on my face as I uncovered my goggles and placed them on my hair with a small smile before feeling an impact from my left shoulder.

"Ow!" I winced before looking back to see the others walking back with worried and stern looks on their faces.

"That's for going off and doing the stupidest thing I've ever seen." Mason stated, which made me chuckle before he hugged me tight and said "And that's for helping out with the situation."

"Jeez Ren, if we knew that you were gonna do something like that, we would've stopped you or maybe joined up with you." Kaede sighed in relief.

"Yeah! You gave us all a heart attack!" Carrie exclaimed. 

"Tell me about it. I was almost at the edge of my seat there." Jack nodded before ruffling my hair. "But I gotta say, not bad for a scrawny kid like you."

"Uhh...thanks?" I thanked, rubbing my cheek with a confused look. I'm not that scrawny, am I? Suddenly, I was jumped on my Kodiak as he continued to lick my face over and over again. "Okay! Okay! That's enough! I get it! You like me!"

"I was so worried about you, Ren! When I saw you and Fluttershy entering that tornado, you nearly gave me a heart-attack!" Kodi exclaimed as he got off of me before nuzzling my right cheek and licking it, causing me to laugh.

"Well thanks for your concern dude." I chuckled.

"I told you all that he would do alright." Nicole stated, which made Rantaro rolled his eyes.

"Whatever..." Rantaro rolled his eyes before smirking at me. "I gotta say that I'm impressed that you did something like that. You sure know how to be reckless."

I let out a nervous chuckle while I rubbed my head bashfully as Jamie walked over with a soft smile and said "You did very wonderful Ren. I still don't get why you would do something like that though."

"Because I was worried about Fluttershy and I would do anything crazy for my friends." I said with a wink. "Besides, she did most of the work after I encouraged her a lot."

"I-I see...you did very well. You're quite strong by h-heart..." Jamie chuckled, glancing down with a smile.

"And it worked well." I turned to Nicole as she glanced away and said "After studying you guys and learning much about your personalities, I learned that you're the type to encourage and support others with kind words, and I figured out that you would be able to encourage Ms. Fluttershy and help her out from her traumatic Flight Camp experience, and it looks like I was right."

"Sure..." Rantaro snickered, which the psychologist ignored.

"You guys were amazing out there!" Twilight beamed with excitement as she gave me and Fluttershy a smile. "You two really have done very well! I hope you two learned something from this experience.

"We have." Fluttershy and I said in unison, causing the both of us to look at each other before we giggled.

"You first." I offered, which Fluttershy nodded.

"Well..." Fluttershy twiddled with her hoof for a while before looking over at all of us and smiled. "Sometimes you can feel like what you have to offer is too little to make a difference, but today, I learned that everypony's contribution is important, no matter how small."

"And if you just keep your head high, do your best, and believe in yourself, anything can happen." I added, nudging Mason while he rolled his eyes with a small smile on his face.

"Well...guess my time is up." With that, Nicole began taking her leave as Rantaro asked "And where are you going? If you're-"

"Planning on finding a way back to our world? Then no, I already know that the chances on finding a way back to our world is a deep lost, but surely we can try and figure out when the time is right....I think." Rantaro blinked in confusion as Nicole began taking her leave, leaving everypony confused and weirded out by her.

"...That is gotta be the strangest human I've ever seen." Rainbow said bluntly.

"You think? This crazy chick is gotta be the weirdest out of anyone I've encountered." Jack added.

"Though I am quite excited to learn so much about her work!" Jamie beamed with a smile before frowning a bit. "Though, when she has the time...I guess..."

"I somehow highly doubt that." Mason sighed. 

"Yeah..." I nodded before noticing Fluttershy gesturing me to follow her, which I nodded. "Hey listen, there's somewhere I got to be. I'll catch you all later!"

"Wait! I'm coming too!" Kodi said, following after as me and Fluttershy, along with a certain Siberian Husky, headed our way out of the crowd while I felt like the others were giving me smirks as they know full well what we were doing.



Later
"Wow...." That was the only thing I've ever said as Fluttershy took me over by a tall tree she went to and cry twice that was just over by her cottage as we managed to see a view of Ponyville from up the top, as well as a good view of the sun slowly rising from the skies.

"This place is so amazing." Kodi sighed happily as the three of us sat on the many leaves on the top. "Do you come here to enjoy it, Fluttershy?"

"Everyday when I have some alone time." Fluttershy giggled. "I love coming here because seeing everything here makes me feel happy."

"Well..." I looked over at Fluttershy with a smile. "If it makes you feel happy, then it makes me feel happy too."

Fluttershy blushed a bit before looking away with a light chuckle. There's the Fluttershy I know and love. She looks back at me before noticing something on my head. 

"Umm...Ren? Why are you still wearing those goggles?" Hm? I glanced upwards on my forehead and realized that I was still wearing those goggles from before. 

"Whoops! I guess I never did noticed them before, eh?" I smiled as I attempted to take them off but Fluttershy gently put her hooves on my hands and didn't let me.

"No no, it's okay Ren. I think they look very nice." I blushed a bit as I asked "Y-you really think so Flutters?"

"Mm-hmm. I think you should keep them." I let out a smile and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, you look kinda cool with those bro." Kodi snickered before I ruffled his hair a bit as I said "Yeah, you're right. Thanks you guys, I'll keep these goggles because...I'll think of them as a reminder of this event."

Fluttershy softly smiled before frowning, which I noticed. "Hm? Something wrong?"

"W-well...it's just that....Ren..." She looked at me with a worried look and felt hesitant on what she has to say. "Do you think that once you find your way back home...back with your own kind and the rest of your family, along with everypony else...will we never see each other again?"

And just like that, I went silent as I gaze down on my legs with a sad and worried look. It's just like with Kodiak before...they're worried that we might never come back to Equestria because there's always that tearful and sad endings where the main character and cast never see each other again. I know that only happens in fictional stories, movies, TV Shows, animes, and manga but...this is real life. If that were to happen....does that mean that I'll never see my friends ever again? We've learned so much about Equestria, about the magic of friendship, and making new bonds together. 

"R-Ren?" I looked back at Fluttershy and Kodiak, who both had sad and worried looks on their faces too. I don't want to set the mood down so maybe I could encouraged them a bit.

"Well...I'm not sure but I know that I'll always be here with you guys to the end." I said with a smile.

"Well..." Kodi licked me on the left cheek with a smile on his face. "I believe in you Ren, so I know that you'll always be with us."

"Thanks boy." I chuckled until I felt Fluttershy's lips on my right cheek, causing me to chuckle nervously and flushed in embarrassment.

"Well no matter what...it's your decision, not mine." Fluttershy smiled. "But promise me that no matter where we are, you'll always be thinking of me and the others."

"I promise." I nodded, which caused her to raise an amused brow at me as she asked "Pinkie promise?"

I let out a chuckled before I began to do the gestures and words of the Pinkie promise.

"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." I said with a smile as we began laughing at that until Fluttershy leaned against my shoulder, much to my surprise while Kodiak laid on my lap with a soft smile before letting out a yawn and taking a nap while me and Fluttershy looked at each other with soft smiles as we gazed upon the sun rising over Ponyville and the home-ship.

Yeah...that's right. I promise Fluttershy...I promise to never forget you guys and I'll always be thinking of you guys to the end.



Meanwhile
Somewhere in the dark depths of a forest just far far away from where our heroes are living, a mysterious centaur-like creature in a brown cloak is seen walking down the path with heavy grunts.

"After all these years...I'm finally free." He said as he clenched his paw into a fist. "My dear old brother...you're such a fool. To think on betraying me thousands of years ago just because these ponies made you soft! Well...it's no more! Once I regain my strength, I'll steal all of Equestria's magic and make it my world!"

"Mmmmm....Very interesting objective you have." The figure turned around, finding another cloaked figure in black as he asked "But I must say, I know that your strength will take a long time to recover, my old friend."

"Friend?" He scoffed at him before saying "I don't even know who you are, and besides, I don't need friends when all I got is power alone."

"Hmm...such a sad state of affairs, isn't it?" The figure taunted, upsetting the centaur as his horns beneath the cloak began to glow as he opened his mouth and attempted to suck out the life out of him, but unfortunately...nothing came.

"W-what? Impossible! How could this be?!" The centaur demanded. "What are you?!"

"Me? Oh nothing more than a reasonable ally of yours." The figure answered. "Now listen, I already learned about your magic sucking ability and whoever you sucked, you gained more stronger while the individual lays on the ground and sooner or later...well you know what happens when these ponies can't regain their strength, power, and such. It such a sad state that these ponies are gonna be left defenseless of their magic, but I must agree with you on stealing their powers."

"What?" He asked the figure as he continued "These ponies are too simple-minded with greed, dark desires, and such. It makes this world feel useless...just like before."

"I don't know what you're ranting on about, but I don't care." The centaur scoffed. "I have no business with the likes of you. I don't know how I wasn't able to steal your magic, but it doesn't matter. I rather find my first victim and steal all of their magic for my taking."

"I see..." The figure gazes at the centaur as he said "But you and I have similar goals, we both hate these ponies and I know what's it like to be betrayed."

The centaur perked up upon hearing that last bit about 'betrayed' as the figure continued "I've been used in the past as well on those who think my power was either meant for good or evil, but I made my mind and I realized my purpose. You were heavily betrayed by your brother ever since the day he met Starswirl The Bearded and he was encouraged to learn more, warning the princesses' about your evil plans, locking you away in Tartarus and thousands of years sure have past for you. Your brother is no more I'm afraid."

"Pfft! Like I care about you or that ungrateful welp of a brother." The centaur scoffed. "Soon, all of Equestria's magic will be in my claws and nothing will stop me."

"Oh, allow me to be of assistance. After all...I am the one who gotten Cerberus away from your prison in order for you to escape." The centaur became shocked upon hearing that this masked figure was the one who released him out of his prison.

"...I see now, so tell me, why did you release me, Lord Tirek, out of my prison? You should know how dangerous I am."

"And I know that you are quite vengeful on the dear old princesses and that's why we need to work together...to create a better hope for this world that can overcome any despair." The centaur known as Lord Tirek looked at him for a while before letting out a sly smirk.

"Alright....you may serve under me. Tell me, what is your name?"

The cloaked figure looked at the figure with a hard gaze before fully saying one word that revealed who he is.

"My name.....is Void."
To Be Continued